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...words won’t make you sound smarter, according to this year’s Ig Noble Prize for improbable research recipient for Literature, Princeton psychology professor Daniel M. Oppenheimer. His paper, “Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly,” found that contrary to prevailing wisdom among undergraduates, readers are more likely to think that clear, concise writers are more intelligent. The study was published last year in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology. According to Oppenheimer’s paper, almost two thirds of the Princeton students...
...Daniel J.T. Schuker contributed to the reporting of this story.—Staff writer Evan H. Jacobs can be reached at ehjacobs@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff writer Anton S. Troianovski can be reached at atroian@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Daniel J. T. Schuker can be reached at dschuker@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Daniel J. T. Schuker can be reached at dschuker@fas.harvard.edu...
...After Ecuador's election, Washington stands to finish the year swallowing more leftist victories: polls show Daniel Ortega, the controversial former Sandinista President of Nicaragua, may well win that country's Nov. 5 election; and Chavez himself is expected to punctuate 2006 for the Latin left by winning re-election...