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Summary

Welcome! We're glad you're here. Ask A Psycholinguist™ provides quality question and answer based videos for topics related to human psychology, language, and how that impacts others' behavior. We have three kinds of videos: Splainers, Funnies, and Reactions. Splainers answer questions like "how to detect aggression in someone’s text or email?". Funnies address questions on a lighter, comedic way such as "What's a funny joke to use with strangers in an elevator?" Reactions show breakdowns and analyses of communications that are trending on the Internet, such as political events, popular culture, and more. We'll help you laugh, learn, language.

Host

Boban Dedović is the host of Ask A Psycholinguist™. As a trained psycholinguist with a strong background in software engineering, Boban is uniquely positioned to investigate the intersection of psychology and language. His native language is Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian, a grouping of similar languages spoken in the Balkans. He earned his B.A. in Religions of Antiquity from the University of Maryland, College Park. There, he studied Classical Latin and began studying "mind" words in Homeric Greek and Sumerian. His senior seminar thesis, titled "Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld," documented all of the scholarship for a Sumerian afterlife myth of the same title. Under the supervision of Dr. Matthew J. Suriano, this work won the University of Maryland's prestigious Library Award for Research, and demonstrated the complexity of translating the Sumerian language.

Boban also earned a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park. Under the supervision of Dr. Edward Bernat and Dr. Jordan Epistola, Boban combined the methods of hard science with the topic of ancient languages in order to produce a paper titled "'Minds' in 'Homer': A quantitative psycholinguistic comparison of the Iliad and Odyssey." This work won the University of Maryland's prestigious Library Award for Research a second time, and was later presented at the International Conference on the Mental Lexicon in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.

In following his passion for ancient languages, Boban earned an M.A. in the Humanities from the University of Chicago, an institution globally recognized for its contributions to ancient studies. There, Boban studied both Akkadian and Middle Egyptian under the supervision of world-class professors. While studying Mesopotamian Law under Dr. Martha T. Roth, Boban built eHammurabi.org, which digitized the entire Law Code of Hammurabi in a single user interface. Under the supervision of Dr. Janet H. Johnson, Boban produced a master's thesis titled "'Heart,' 'Mind,' and Behavioral Causation in the Songs of Sinuhe: Being applied psycholinguistic analyses of grammatical and lexical patterns of ib, rḫ, and other alleged 'mental language' words and passages in the Middle Egyptian Story of Sinuhe." Both of these works systematically documented the nature, frequency, and translation disparities of "mind" words in the Semitic language family.

Boban currently serves as the Chief Psycholinguistics officer of LINGA Co., the world's first psycholinguistics technology company. There, he applied his framework of psycholinguistic mechanics to invent the Linguistic Fingerprint™, the most comprehensive report of a given person's communication habits in the form factors of both speech and writing.

Boban also hosts the Mindspace Studio podcast, where he interviews thought leaders in fields like psychology, lexicography, linguistics, and other disciplines. He has presented at prestigious international conferences such as the International Conference on the Mental Lexicon in Canada and the Conference of the Dictionary Society of North America in Boulder, Colorado. Boban considers psycholinguistics his life's work, and devoted his strength to the field of study while serving as the Principal Investigator of Consciousness Research Society || CONSCIOUS.AI, an artificial general intelligence research lab.

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