173. How Important Is Your Choice of Words?
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What happens when three psychologists walk into a magic show? What’s Angela’s problem with the word “talent”?  And why does LeBron James refer to himself in the third person?

SOURCES:

• John Bargh), professor of psychology at Yale University.
• Derren Brown), mentalist.
• Carol Dweck), professor of psychology at Stanford University.
• Daniel Kahneman), professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University.
• Ethan Kross), professor of psychology at the University of Michigan.
• Barbara Mellers), professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Daniel Southwick), visiting professor of psychology at Brigham Young University and former N.F.L. quarterback.
• Lior Suchard), mentalist.

RESOURCES:

• "4 Ways to Get Into the Magic Castle)," by Stephanie Breijo (*TimeOut, *2023).
• "The Trouble With Talent: Semantic Ambiguity in the Workplace)," by Daniel A. Southwick, Zhaoying V. Liu, Chayce Baldwin, Abigail L. Quirk, Lyle H. Ungar, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Angela L. Duckworth (*Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, *2023).
• "A Decade of Power Posing: Where Do We Stand?)" by Tom Loncar (*The Psychologist, *2021).
• "Influencing Choices With Conversational Primes: How a Magic Trick Unconsciously Influences Card Choices)," by Alice Pailhès and Gustav Kuhn (*PNAS, *2020).
• "If You Want Your Marketing Campaign To Succeed, Choose Your Words Carefully)," by Allan Hug (*Forbes, *2019).
• "What's Next for Psychology's Embattled Field of Social Priming)," by Tom Chivers (*Nature, *2019).
• "Silent Third Person Self-Talk Facilitates Emotion Regulation)," by Christopher Bergland (*Psychology Today, *2017).
• "Disputed Results a Fresh Blow for Social Psychology)," by Alison Abbott (*Scientific American, *2013).
• "A Proposal to Deal With Questions About Priming Effects)," email by Daniel Kahneman (2012).
• "Behavioral Priming: It's All in the Mind, but Whose Mind?)" by Stéphane Doyen, Olivier Klein, Cora-Lise Pichon, and Axel Cleeremans (*PLoS One, *2012).
• Thinking, Fast and Slow)*, *by Daniel Kahneman (2011).