Website review: 5 Psychological Experiments That Pr...
pedersencato discovered this in Psychology
•57 reviews since May 6, 2008
humor, psychology, science
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krebbe rated 10 days ago- I wasn't going to thumb this up, since lists of stuff on blog sites tends to get repeated, but after reading the stumble reviews and seeing how many were positive, it started to look like a good site to thumb up.
Going off this judgement basis, it hints that the inanity and banality of internet opinions know no bounds. Or perhaps I'm just so apathetic about the majority of stumble content that I mostly use others' opinions to decide how I feel about it.- I wasn't going to thumb this up, since lists of stuff on blog sites tends to get repeated, but after reading the stumble reviews and seeing how many were positive, it started to look like a good site to thumb up.
- arleas rated 2 weeks ago
- Whoops... Looks like I DIDN'T really rate the original. Maybe I rated one of the other clones of this on the web? Anyway, they had to list the Milgram experiment and the Stanford Prison experiment... I think they pretty much proved that the Stanford experiment was flawed though because people were chosen for a role and they played that role, not because that's how people are necessarily.
- Shoc rated 3 weeks ago
- wow
- richdiesal rated 3 weeks ago
- A list of classic studies in psychological science represented fairly accurately! Pretty unusual, for the Internet!
In any case, if you never took Intro Psych, give this set a read to learn about the darker side of humanity: selfishness and conformity.
It's not that humanity is inherently evil, as many people like to conclude from this. It's that we are wired for self-preservation. If an authority figure commands you to do something, then that person (in your mind) is taking responsibility for that action. Therefore, you should do what that person says or face the repercussions of disobeying. This makes total sense from an evolutionary perspective: the success of humanity in our caveman-type past relied on blind obedience to the leader. If you didn't stick together, do the the same thing, believe the same thing, then you risked starvation and extinction.
Knowing these things does give you some power to overcome your natural tendencies though. Just make sure you remember them in the moment... - A list of classic studies in psychological science represented fairly accurately! Pretty unusual, for the Internet!
- chikoos rated 3 weeks ago
- From the page: "Obviously if there's an emergency and you're the only one around, the pressure to help out increases massively. You feel 100 percent responsible for what happens. But, when you're with 10 other people, you're only 10 percent as responsible. The problem is everybody else only feels 10 percent responsible too." "We just need the slightest excuse to do nothing." The politician isn't the only hypocrite in town.WE ARE.
- efssoup rated 3 weeks ago
- Don't blame other people for being assholes! We're all just kinda wired that way!
- Krazykat5216 rated 3 weeks ago
- This is some scary stuff. This article has got me wondering what I would be doing if put in such a situation.
- marimessias rated 3 weeks ago
- "Well, it's a good thing I'm a rebellious non-conformist," many of you are saying. Of course, for virtually all of you, the next step is to find out what the other non-conformists are doing ... ... and make sure you conform to it perfectly."
