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Feels – Psycholinguistics made simple. Our mission is to promote objective analysis of real 🗣️human language via fun, short videos and the 🪄magic of psycholinguistics. We do this by organizing, analyzing, and making freely available a growing collection of Feels, or highly structured short-form videos that explain the contents of a given conversation between two or more people. Plus GIFs.
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In the hit movie Arrival (2016), linguist Dr. Banks has nightmares about her job of decoding an alien language, and presence, on earth. Dr. Banks' inability to differentiate a dream from reality while projecting novel dream content demonstrates an average example of the Inference attribute.
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On November 19, 2018, rapper and actor Snoop Dogg earned a coveted star on the famous Hollywood Walk Of Fame. During his brief acceptance speech, the well-dressed Snoop Dogg thanked the usual suspects: family, friends, coworkers, people who believed in him, and so forth. A few minutes in, he began saying "I wanna thank me for ..." this and that. The crowd laughed and the rapper received mixed reactions online. Snoop Dogg's candid responses were not deeply personal, but more general and humorous. This level of disclosure in front of a live audience demonstrates an average example of the Volubility attribute.
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In the first season of the hit show The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022), Isabel "Belly" Conklin discovers what happens when she gets attention from boys around her. In this clip, Belly is at a convenience store snacking when she notices the clerk admiring her from afar. She seems to feel both surprised and flattered.
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Achilles in Troy (2004) kills an enemy soldier before disclosing battle plans to the enemy's king.
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Famous basketball coach Bob Knight infamously throws a chair during a college basketball game featuring Indiana and Purdue.
