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Conformity: scientific and sociological insight

submitted by hpqp

1 decade 4 years 1 month 3 weeks ago

An interesting and well researched talk on conformity and the effects of repetition and social pressure to create a false majority, based on psychosocial and neurological experiments.

"Conformity [...] begins to work against us when we allows ourselves to be tyrannized by group opinion, in areas where group opinion simply shouldn't figure".

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And that's why companies spend so much on advertising.

Moving this video to hpqp's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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Wow shit howdy. This vid is great.

Group think within the Sift -- how does this vid reflect "life" on the Sift?

It also made me wildly interested in seeing an MRI of a troll's brain when they post an egregiously awful troll that is way outside social norms. What parts of their brains are firing? How does it compare to my brain when I post something that I believe won't receive much support but I post it anyway because I think it is the right thing to do? Both of us are outside the norm -- but is the same part of the brain engaged?

Fascinating.

Anybody got access to an MRI machine?

But democracy taught me moral authority, and justification comes not from thinking, but from numbers! *Giant hook yanks troll off stage*

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