http://mindhacks.com/2009/02/06/if-its-difficult-to-pronounce-it-must-be-risky/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Sun, 19 May 2013 05:26:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/02/06/if-its-difficult-to-pronounce-it-must-be-risky/#comment-6033 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:01:34 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/if-its-difficult-to-pronounce-it-must-be-risky/#comment-6033 Perhaps the subjects were trying to guess what was going on inside the mind of the person who named the product or ride.
I mean, if you haven’t bothered to come up with a sensible name for an additive, perhaps that’s because you deliberately want to make it obscure – or perhaps it just isn’t used widely (and so is untested).
And whoever named the ride presumably did so deliberately to try to convey something of its nature. Just a bit of fun, or wild and crazy?

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/02/06/if-its-difficult-to-pronounce-it-must-be-risky/#comment-6032 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:42:09 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/if-its-difficult-to-pronounce-it-must-be-risky/#comment-6032 Does it mean that in this study people were asked to rate the dangerousness of things based solely on their names ? In that case let me say that when you ask a stupid question you’ll only get stupid answers.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/02/06/if-its-difficult-to-pronounce-it-must-be-risky/#comment-6031 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:48:03 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/if-its-difficult-to-pronounce-it-must-be-risky/#comment-6031 That just made me laugh out loud. Human beings are funny creatures.

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