When I was in graduate school at Emory, a fellow student developed a questionnaire for his congregation to measure their racial attitudes. He passed out a survey and recorded the results. Then he ...

President Trump on Christmas Eve listened to a sermon about the “power of speech” and “words.” The sermon — which the president and first lady Melania Trump heard at the Episcopal Church of ...

“And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of ...

In a previous post, I examined the psychological power of conjunctions, especially that warm, fuzzy, inclusive conjunction: and. Here we expand our focus to the psychological power of words in general ...