Monday, January 19, 2015

Crowd Control

This amazing series on National Geographic shows an enormous variety of social psychological concepts and behavioral research and how it can be applied in many real world situations.

The following are links to some of the best episodes.

Crowd Control: Top Takeaways

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Behavior expert Daniel Pink takes a look back at some of the show’s most successful and memorable experiments. CROWD CONTROL airs Mondays on National Geographic Channel.


Crowd Control: Time Flies

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Using the technique of priming, Daniel Pink tells a few innocuous white lies to a group of elderly people in an attempt to make them act how they actually feel, years younger. CROWD CONTROL airs Mondays on National Geographic Channel.


Crowd Control: Food for Thought

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Daniel will try to make a restaurant cellphone-use-free by creating friendly competition with a bubbly prize as incentive. CROWD CONTROL airs Mondays on National Geographic Channel.

Sunday, January 18, 2015

I wonder what it means that I look at this and the first thing that pops into my head is "OMG, Great example of a Negative Correlation!"


Hummm, fantastic example of a negative correlation! I wonder if I will get in trouble if I showed this to my social psych classes? Of course, I wonder what it means that I look at this and the first thing that pops into my head is "OMG, Great example of a Negative Correlation!"(Also, I have no idea what the word's say. I'm assuming it's French, but I don't really know for sure.)