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Lera Boroditsky

Shakespeare Had Roses All Wrong
NPR article & audio

Stanford’s Lera Boroditsky conducted a study on the effects of a language’s gendering of a noun on a person’s perception of that object. Also seen in Newsweek.

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Posted by on August 11th, 2009 at 08:00 am

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