There’s a Name for How Our Language Evolves When It Acquires Negative Connotations
And it's called the euphemism treadmill.
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There’s A Name For That
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There’s a Name for the Material Things You Desire Even More After Their Price Goes Up
And they're called Veblen goods.
There’s a Name for Why We Give Too Much Weight to the Opinions of Others
And it's called equality bias.
There’s a Name for Why We So Often Fail to Predict What Will Improve Our Future Happiness
And it's called miswanting.
There’s a Name for Why We Retreat and Withdraw From Others Even When We Desire Companionship
And it's called the porcupine problem.
There’s a Name for Why We So Often Don’t Notice Long-Term—and Worrisome—Trends
And it's called shifting baseline syndrome.
There’s a Name for Why the Simplest Questions Sometimes Seem Like They’re the Trickiest to Answer
And it's called the Moses Illusion.