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Psychologists, in and out of the government, have learned how to manipulate social behavior. The promotion of collective harmony, under the guise of achieving happiness, is simply another carefully designed mechanism for conformity. Positive psychology is about banishing criticism and molding a group into a weak and malleable unit that will take or
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
the behavior of online users is surprisingly difficult to predict because it involves a confluence of disciplines, including, but not limited to, psychology, sociology, and economics.
Stefan H. Thomke • Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments
many behavioral scientist’s, focus on errors of decision making and not on persuasion or “making people do stuff” regardless of their wishes.
Stephen Wendel • Designing for Behavior Change: Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics
During the COVID-19 outbreak of 2020, researchers examined the reasons Japanese citizens employed to decide how often to wear face masks, as urged by the country’s health scientists; although multiple reasons were measured—such as perceived severity of the disease, likelihood mask-wearing would protect oneself from infection, likelihood mask-wearin... See more
Robert B. Cialdini • Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion
Each ant, like each human, is composed of a living physical structure plus behavioral algorithms in its nerve cells. In the ant’s case, the behavioral algorithms are few in number and almost entirely genetic in origin. The ant learns a little behavior from experiences, but mostly it merely responds to ten or so stimuli with a few simple responses p... See more
Charlie Munger • The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, by Charlie Munger
in a study comparing Koreans and Americans, both parents and friends were asked to make judgments about the characteristics of the study participants. Among Americans, participants who had reported greater behavioral consistency across contexts were rated as both more “socially skilled” and more “likable” by parents and friends than those who repor... See more
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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