Roger Kreuz

How America Learned to Love Barnes & Noble Again Anti-chain animus is receding.

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The 1 Question to Ask Before Making a Sarcastic Comment Sarcasm tends to unravel in certain situations and relationships.

I was interviewed for an article that appeared in "Time" magazine yesterday:

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Unconscious Plagiarism: Fact or Fiction? Writers, musicians, and artists accused of plagiarism sometimes insist that this happened inadvertently and unconsciously. Does psychological research support such a claim?

My lates post at “Psychology Today”:

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It’s never too late to learn a language – adults and kids bring different strengths to the task While a young language learner can more easily acquire a native accent, adults retain the ability to learn new languages well into later life.

It’s never too late to learn a language – adults and kids bring different strengths to the task
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Why Kids Are Starting to Sound Like Their Grandparents

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What Happens When Books Aren’t News In a sense, the decline of book reviews, like the decline of newspapers themselves, is a story about disaggregation.

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Opinion | AI Detection Pushed My Students to Use AI The perverse incentives of our attempts to combat cheating.

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What you need to know about plagiarism in the age of AI What you need to know about plagiarism in the age of AI

A link to my interview on Memphis Channel 3 News “Live at 9” yesterday morning:

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The 6-7 craze offered a brief window into the hidden world of children From Pig Latin to Punch Buggy, kids have long used nonsensical language, gestures and games to carve out cultures of their own.

The 6-7 craze offered a brief window into the hidden world of children
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It's publication day for my book "Strikingly Similar"! It's gotten positive reviews in venues such as "Publishers Weekly" and "The Times of London." This is a picture of it on dispaly at the publisher's bookstore.

Is the Dictionary Done For? The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a revolution.

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The Last Days of the Southern Drawl By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.

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The Gamification of English The popularity of gaming culture is reflected in new terms that are entering the language.

My latest article for “Psychology Today”:

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Canadian linguists ask prime minister to stop spelling like a Brit After a plethora of British spellings emerged in the government’s budget, academics and editors urged him to utilize, not utilise, Canadian English.

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What if Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction? If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.

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The Rise of the Vibe What matters more — feelings or facts? The increasingly common use of "vibe" may provide a clue.

My latest article for "Psychology Today":

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A Very Big Fight Over a Very Small Language In the Swiss Alps, a plan to tidy up Romansh—spoken by less than one per cent of the country—set off a decades-long quarrel over identity, belonging, and the sound of authenticity.

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2025’s words of the year reflect a year of digital disillusionment From AI slop to rage bait, to the cryptic ‘6-7,’ this year’s slate captures a growing sense that online life is flooded with fakery, frustration and meaninglessness.

Singing dictators, Skrilla, and an embarrassed Prime Minister--they all make an appearance in my "words of the year" roundup:

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Why Taylor Swift’s Accent Has Changed And yours might too.

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Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges Resilience is often presented as feats of bravery and endurance. But everyday practices like journaling, drafting a text or even writing a to-do list are manifestations of a capacity to adapt.

Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges
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The Fan Fiction Dilemma The enormous amount of fan fiction being generated calls into question issues of authorship, ownership, and appropriation.

My latest article for "Psychology Today":

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Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.

A fascinating article in this week's "New Yorker":

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I still can't access it. Yes, if you can send me a PDF, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for letting me know, but I get a 404 error when following the link. Can you send me a copy of the preview?

The Strange Second Life of the Greek Alphabet The Greek letter system has migrated from typology to pseudo-psychology.

My latest article for "Psychology Today":

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Are You Resigned to a World of Bad News? Or Do You Need Some ‘Cope’?

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Opinion | Gen Z slang is everywhere. Do you understand it? Today’s teen slang is more absurd, global-reaching and irony-laden, thanks to TikTok.

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The Suffix That Tells Us to Ruthlessly Optimize Everything

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Writing, Thinking, and Falling in Love in Another Language I became a different person after learning English.

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Opinion | These editor’s notes are poison. I learned from every drop. Working with Starling Lawrence, who died last month, was a bracing course in a vanishing art.

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