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fnands
JFC that website makes me want to pluck out my own eyeballs.
karmakaze
> The effect is stronger for people that have a high need for status (e.g. buyers of luxury products or people in high power distance cultures such as China, Egypt, Brazil, and India).
monkaiju
WTF was this written by an AI?
kaffeeringe
I learned in linguistics that brains can't think in negations and at first understand the unnegated and then negate it. Popular example: "Don't think of a pink elephant." And you'll think of a pink elephant...
karmakaze
You don't even need to use words. A car that runs off a road into a field has a higher than random chance of hitting the only tree in the field.