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<div>Humans hardwired to use the passive voice</div>
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<p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">The human brain is hardwired to prefer the passive voice. A definite predilection for passive constructions has been found by a team of neuroscientists led by Elaine Bao Weiss and
W. Strang-Ng, postdoctoral researchers at Cornell University’s Neurosyntax Imaging Laboratory. </p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">“This was totally unexpected,” Bao Weiss said of the findings. “Generations of writers have been advised to prefer the active to the passive, but that’s not how the brain works.”</p>
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