TY - JOUR AU - Forgács, Bálint TI - A medical language for climate discourse JF - FRONTIERS IN CLIMATE J2 - FRONT CLIM VL - 6 PY - 2024 SN - 2624-9553 DO - 10.3389/fclim.2024.1384753 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34848001 ID - 34848001 AB - Innovative communication theories propose that we understand messages not by decoding their meaning but by inferring what speakers intend to express. However scientifically accurate the messages climate scientists have put forward, the appropriate inferences may not have been drawn by most of their audiences. One of the main reasons may be that scientific metaphors allow for multiple interpretations, yet, because of their expressive power, they impact discourses disproportionately. Climate communication took a path of euphemistic scientific expressions partially due to the noble scientific norms of self-restraint and modesty, but the hidden implications of climate jargon distort the way non-experts think about the heating climate. Consequently, the current climate jargon hinders informed decisions about Earth’s life support systems. Changing the softened expressions of climate language, from the cool of basic research to the heat and compassion of medical contexts, may allow for more productive public and political debates – which may lead to more powerful policy solutions. Speaking and thinking in medical terms could turn the perception of worst case scenarios from hypotheticals or doomism to life-saving interventions. We typically start reducing fever before it gets out of control, let alone crosses a threshold of potential death. Instead of putting on a positivist mascara, a calm and serious discussion of safety measures in medical terms, for example, talking about climatic tipping cascades as metastases, could foster a more honest evaluation of the required legal and regulatory steps to keep our home planet habitable. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Schütz, Brúnó Péter AU - Forgács, Bálint TI - Experimental methods of measuring mental grammar: a computation-based grouping of irregular noun stems in Hungarian. Pilot study T2 - Work in Progress Symposium 2023: Program and Abstracts PB - ELTE PPK Kognitív Pszichológia Tanszék PY - 2023 SP - 4 EP - 5 PG - 2 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34345088 ID - 34345088 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Munding, Márton AU - Forgács, Bálint TI - Tri-level norming: The effects of semantic combinatorics on the emotional dimensions of figurative language T2 - Work in Progress Symposium 2023: Program and Abstracts PB - ELTE PPK Kognitív Pszichológia Tanszék PY - 2023 SP - 3 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34345047 ID - 34345047 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Forgács, Bálint AU - Gervain, Judit AU - Eugenio, Parise AU - Király, Ildikó TI - The Development of the Social N400: Semantic Systems Are Utilized to Mentalize From Infancy to Adulthood T2 - BCCCD Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development - 2023 Program and Abstracts PB - Central European University PY - 2023 SP - 97 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34133090 ID - 34133090 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Munding, Márton AU - Ilyés, Alex Roland AU - Forgács, Bálint TI - Sentence context manipulation’s effect on semantic processing of metaphors (an EEG study) T2 - 14th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science: Mechanisms of Collective Decision-making for Cooperative Actions - Abstract Book PY - 2023 SP - 74 EP - 75 PG - 2 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34133086 ID - 34133086 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Ilyés, Alex Roland AU - Paulik, Borbála AU - Munding, Márton AU - Forgács, Bálint AU - Keresztes, Attila TI - A high-resolution fMRI investigation of the role of hippocampal pattern separation of conceptually similar memory traces T2 - Abstracts of the 30th meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society PY - 2023 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33813767 ID - 33813767 AB - poszter LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Forgács, Bálint AU - Tauzin, Tibor AU - Gergely, György AU - Gervain, Judit TI - Newborns take into account the communicative dimension of language T2 - BCCCD 2022 Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development PY - 2022 SP - 124 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/34133096 ID - 34133096 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CHAP AU - Ladányi, Enikő AU - Gervain, Judit AU - Forgács, Bálint ED - Pléh, Csaba ED - Sass, Judit ED - Gervain, Judit ED - Meskó, Norbert TI - Nyelvfeldolgozás T2 - Pszichológia PB - Akadémiai Kiadó CY - Budapest SN - 9789634546399 T3 - Akadémiai Kézikönyvek, ISSN 1787-4750 ; 13. PY - 2022 SP - 485 EP - 548 PG - 64 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33721393 ID - 33721393 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Magyari, Lilla AU - Pléh, Csaba AU - Forgács, Bálint TI - The Hungarian hubris syndrome JF - PLOS ONE J2 - PLOS ONE VL - 17 PY - 2022 IS - 8 PG - 11 SN - 1932-6203 DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0273226 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33065565 ID - 33065565 AB - Powerful figures, such as politicians, who show a behavioural pattern of exuberant self-confidence, recklessness, and contempt for others may be the subject of the acquired personality disorder, the hubris syndrome , which has been demonstrated to leave its mark on speech patterns. Our study explores characteristic language patterns of Hungarian prime ministers (PMs) with a special emphasis on one of the key indicators of hubris, the shift from the first person “I” to “we” in spontaneous speech. We analyzed the ratio of the first-person singular (“I”) and plural (“we”) pronouns and verbal inflections in the spontaneous parliamentary speeches of four Hungarian PMs between 1998–2018. We found that Viktor Orbán during his second premiership (2010–2014) used first person plural relative to singular inflections more often than the other three PMs during their terms. Orbán and another Hungarian PM, Ferenc Gyurcsány, who were re-elected at some point showed an increased ratio of first-person plural vs. singular inflections and personal pronouns by their second term, likely reflecting increasing hubristic tendencies. The results show that the ratio of “I” and “we” usually studied in English texts also show changes in a structurally different language, Hungarian. This finding suggests that it is extended periods of premiership that may increase hubristic behaviour in political leaders, not only experiencing excessive power. The results are particularly elucidating regarding the role of re-elections in political leaders’ hubristic speech–and behaviour. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - CONF AU - Munding, Márton AU - Forgács, Bálint AU - Alex, Ilyés TI - The effects of semantic combinatorics on the emotional dimensions of language T2 - 13th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (DUCOG): Cognitive and Functional Perspectives on Emotions PB - Central European Cognitive Science Association (CECOG) C1 - Dubrovnik PY - 2022 SP - 45 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32909884 ID - 32909884 N1 - poster LA - English DB - MTMT ER -