Defamiliarization

Brain Lenses

Defamiliarization

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Defamiliarization

Colin Wright

May 31, 2022

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Brain Lenses

Defamiliarization

In sociology and anthropology, the term "Nacirema" is sometimes used in place of "the United States" to help researchers suppress bias related to data about Americans and things that happen in American society. This neologism was coined in 1956 in a paper entitled…

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