Showing posts with label name-calling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label name-calling. Show all posts

Thursday, May 3, 2018

The Rumpelstiltskin Principle


As the 4,000 year old tale tells, once you have a name for something, you have power over it.

This is a generally recognized principle in psychology, and has some implication for our relationship with smell, a sense for which the stimulus we often fail to call by name.