[Ailist] RE: I need an new word

[Edith Hunter]

How about "Yodaologist?"  The force is with you, you
have every thing you need inside.


--- "Arnett, Sarah" <Sarah.Arnett at mosescone.com>
wrote:

> This brings to mind TA days(Transactional Analysis)
> - "I'm OK, You're OK"
> 
> Sarah
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ailist-bounces at lists.business.utah.edu
> [mailto:ailist-bounces at lists.business.utah.edu]On
> Behalf Of Cheri Torres
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:03 AM
> To: 'Mike Sands'
> Cc: ailist at lists.business.utah.edu
> Subject: [Ailist] RE: I need an new word
> 
> 
> Mike,
> 
>  
> 
> How about rapportology?  (Though this sounds a bit
> like studying dinasaurs).
> 
>  
> 
> Cheri
> 
>  
> 
>   _____  
> 
> From: Mike Sands [mailto:msands at dccnet.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:49 AM
> To: sfuc-chat at yahoogroups.com; Barbara Davenport;
> Carol Iwamoto; Cheri
> Torres; Jan Molina; Bob Worth
> Subject: I need an new word
> 
>  
> 
> I need a word to describe a field of study - I think
> we will have to invent
> a new word as I don't think it exists yet.  The word
> might become the name
> of a new social science.
> 
>  
> 
> A working defiinition of the word will be something
> like "the study of how
> people elicit feelings of  confidence capabilityand
> happiness in a
> conversation partner".  
> 
>  
> 
> This is a serious (and fun?) request.  There are
> many things people do to
> help conversation partners feel confident,
> effective, and happy in the
> moment. If we were to formalize the study of such
> practises we might find we
> got more of them.
> 
>  
> 
> Mike
> 
>  
> 
> PS Cheri - I thought about "efficology" - Hmm would
> you like to be an
> efficologist - sounds to me like I'd perform
> operations on the effluent
> parts of the human body - but its a start.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
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