We’ve all been there: in a work meeting, trying to stop our eyes from glazing over as a colleague spews an endless monologue about “leveraging the company’s adaptive strategy to optimize our value and reinvigorate our operations.”
That incomprehensible, buzzword-heavy language has a name: “corporate bulls–t.” That’s at least according to Shane Littrell, a cognitive psychologist and a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University. He studies how people evaluate and share knowledge, and how misleading information shapes people’s beliefs, attitudes, and decision-making.
