[yaddayadda]

> We found that cueing people to reflect on intense emotional experiences using their names and non-first-person pronouns such as “you” or “he” or “she” consistently helped them control their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

In Marine Corps basic training (i.e. bootcamp) recruits must refer to themselves in the third person and as "Recruit LastName". I always assumed it was to dehumanize us (and that was probably the initial reason), but now I wonder if it had the added side effect of helping us "control [our] thoughts, feelings, and behaviors" during the prolonged period of "intense emotional experiences" that is bootcamp.

[kiiski]

I assume it's the same in all militaries (in Finnish Defence Forces, when talking to superiors you're always supposed to begin with "sir/ma'am <his/her rank>, <my rank> <my last name>" (in reality people are rarely that formal after basic training)). I always assumed it was mainly to ensure that the other person knows who you are. It's certainly helpfull when you go as an NCO to a new unit and need to learn everyones names.

[JoshMilo]

I also wondered that when I went through, later I got clarification that it was for those reasons, and to remove the individual, so that we can follow commands faster and with less hesitation.