Concrete vs Abstract Language in Persuasive Speech
Concrete language wins when audiences are uncertain; abstraction works when they're engaged.
Dmitri Calloway
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Dmitri Calloway
Dmitri holds a graduate degree in cognitive psychology and has covered behavioral science and learning research for trade and consumer outlets since the mid-2000s. He focuses on what the evidence actually says about how people build durable skills, and is reliably skeptical of hype.
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