Questions tagged [writing]
For questions about the psychological principles behind writing, its mechanics, learning writing, and improving the process.
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Justified vs Left-aligned(/ranged-left) text
My new place of work insists on "justifying" all our outgoing reports and letters. I am used to "left-aligning". I cannot imagine a world where justifying is a good thing.
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Gutenberg technology effects on human psyche
McLuhan is claiming that Gutenberg technology was the reason of human psyche fragmentation, primitivism and social conformism. I am trying to find links between Gutenberg technology and the phenomenon ...
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Is there any research connected with typing/writing to help in creativity or focus?
In my personal experience, typing my thoughts when I am working through creative problems seem to help. But it's subjective and would like to have some confirmation.
Atkin in "The Phenomenological ...
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Upside down, backwards writing [closed]
I am an older adult, who entered college late in life. I came to find out that I have both Dyscalculia, and Dyslexia (formally diagnosed) through great difficulty in college. Not realizing that I had ...
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Handedness bias in Raven's Matrices
A few years ago I tried a Raven's Matrices IQ test on the Internet. In every test the bottom right element had to be deduced and this could always be done by scanning the first two rows to determine ...
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Is there any research of spelling errors from a dual-process theory perspective?
Checking the rather comprehensive but somewhat dated 2008 review of Evans on dual-process theories, I didn't see anything about [mis]spelling.
But it seems to me an obvious thing to investigate ...
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Involuntary misspelling while writing
I'm a native Spanish speaker. In Spanish, the verb "to accept" is "aceptar". When I write it down, or type it on my phone, I tend to write "haceptar" (the H in Spanish is mute, so it'd be pronounced ...
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Can one reasonably guess the gender of a person from their writing/speech contents?
Is it possible to reasonably guess the gender of a person from a random sample of their writing (text, not handwriting)?
How about from the contents of their speech (not including their voice, of ...
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Is there a non-interactive alternative to the concept of SuperMemo/spaced repetition?
I recently wrote an open-source application that lets you practice Chinese writing and the decisions I made about its inner workings were related to my theories of how human memory works. I'm not sure ...
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Is writing ability associated with IQ or intelligence?
Is greater ability to write well i.e. analysis of books/literature/research papers associated with higher I.Q. scores?
Statistically speaking, is writing ability normally distributed like I.Q. is?
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Why does handwriting change?
In New York magazine it is stated:
[I]t’s strange that your handwriting changes over time; scientifically speaking, there’s no reason it should. At a certain point, you’ve learned all there is to ...
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Daily Life of Clinical Psycologist [closed]
What is the daily routine of a clinical psycologist? Granted, schedules fluctuate and people have different personal lives. I am writing a story that has a character with the same occupation.
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Is there a name or explanation for the behaviour of writing the second letter first? [closed]
When I am writing (pen and paper) I sometimes write the second letter of a word first. I write it like the first letter, so capitalized if that applies. I notice this problem the second I put it on ...
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mirror-writing using non-dominant hand easier with closed eyes
I've learnt to mirror-write as shown below using my non-dominant hand. One of the things I've observed is that it's a lot easier when I do it with my eyes closed. For e.g. if my eyes were closed, I'd ...
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What are the differences between formulating a response in speech vs. formulating a written response?
I am specifically interested in the difference between these two processes during producing a response to a question. What are the differences of the cognitive process between those two scenarios?
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Is it easier/faster to recognise digits or written words?
Is there any peer-reviewed evidence which suggests whether it is faster and/or easier for a native English speaker to recognise digits (1, 2, 3, 4) vs. full written English word equivalents (one, two, ...
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Is it easier/faster to recognise digits or written words? [duplicate]
Does anyone know of any evidence to indicate whether it is faster and/or easier for a native English speaker to recognise digits (1, 2, 3, 4) vs. full written English word equivalents (one, two, three,...
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Are words and ideas written in a distinctive font easier to remember?
I read that serif fonts have more distinctive characters, and I was wondering if, at the brain level, the fact that something is written with more distinctive characters would be more easily ...
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Is handwriting style heritable?
My daughter (11), wife, and mother in-law all have extremely similar handwriting.
Why is this? Is handwriting a inheritable trait?
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Is psychotherapy more effective when examining free association speech than writing?
Is there a difference between free association speaking vs free association writing? Is psychotherapy more effective when examining free association speech?
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Does the transcription method used (e.g., printing, handwriting, typing, voice recording, etc.) affect memory retention?
When I was in high school, one of my teachers used to make us hand print copies of materials from transparencies on an overhead projector (I may be showing my age), with the reasoning that re-writing ...
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Are there known cases where people can write upside down? [closed]
From the time I was able to write I have been writing upside down, as in literally turning the page 180 degrees and writing. The funny thing is, I can't write the right way up! I am left handed which ...
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Why do you sometimes write down one word while actually intending to write another?
I've caught myself writing (typing) "possible" instead of "possibly" a few times over the past few days, while I do intend to write "possibly". Only upon rereading the sentence I notice my mistake.
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Does writing something down help memorize it?
This is a question inspired by this recent question on the Chinese Language & Usage website.
Someone asked why they needed to learn how to write Chinese characters, since today we mostly use ...
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