Verbal Overshadowing
Verbal overshadowing is a process by which a person’s memory of faces and other hard-to-describe perceptions becomes compromised by speaking or writing about the perceptions. Witnesses to crimes are less likely to correctly identify the perpetrator if they have made a description than if they have not – especially if the description is made within the first ten or fifteen minutes.
Research on verbal overshadowing challenges the popular notion held by philosophers and psychologists that language lies at the core of thought. Various forms of inexpressible knowledge may be best served by avoiding the application of language. Shall I abandon this blog? Continue reading
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