QWERTY Effect of the Day

A new study suggests that how we feel about a given word can be affected by how easy it is to type on a standard QWERTY keyboard.

Writing in the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, cognitive scientist Kyle Jasmin and social psychologist Daniel Cassanato say that words with more letters on the right side of the keyboard tend to carry more po

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