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- oreonblade, on 12/20/2007, -1/+41To impress chicks! Duh...
- dvsbastard, on 12/20/2007, -1/+25ALCOHOL! :)
- insomniacal, on 12/20/2007, -0/+18These two headlines hit the front page one right after the other:
Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things.....
Sorting the 5,195 Pieces of the LEGO Millennium Falcon Vide - ironicsans, on 12/20/2007, -5/+16Another Top 10 List? And yet, against every rational bone in my body, I have the urge to digg it anyway. Huh.
- Sornos, on 12/20/2007, -1/+10The cause of, and solution to all of life's problems.
- piobeyr, on 12/20/2007, -0/+9I thought this would be another dumb psychobabble blog, but it's a pretty good summary of several of the major theories and studies we covered in social psych. Dugg for not pissing me off.
- inactive, on 12/20/2007, -5/+14Because if I were perfectly intelligent and rational 100% of the time, life would be incredibly boring.
- laofmoonster, on 12/20/2007, -0/+8http://duggmirror.com/general_sciences/Why_We_do_D ...
- BigManOnCampus, on 12/20/2007, -2/+8Excellent list, excellent reading, very digg worthy.
I particularly like reading about cognitive dissonance research. - Andysan, on 12/20/2007, -0/+4Sure helps to explain the idiotic things people do in the name of political correctness.
- alvination, on 12/20/2007, -0/+4I thought the answer was sex.
Anyway, as a hopeful grad student in the field of social psych, all this stuff is incredibly fascinating, great find! - zekemorgan, on 12/20/2007, -0/+3You just covered a semester's worth of Social Psych in 5 minutes. Great job.
Zimbardo was crazy ;) - spamfiltertest, on 12/20/2007, -2/+5Very interesting read.... Gotta love Philip Zimbardo too. ;-) Make me want to pull out my prison guard uniform.
- OneLess, on 12/20/2007, -0/+3Yeah, because it wasn't obvious enough from the moans of pain that the learner was being tortured. Have you ever watched the video from the Milgram experiment? These people obviously thought they were inflicting harm on the learner, stewed it over in their mind, and decided to listen to the authority figure anyway.
- inactive, on 12/20/2007, -0/+3i blame the crotch brain
- bennynoneck, on 12/20/2007, -0/+3Dugg down for suggesting that Freud's theories are at all legitimate.
- Fracture98, on 12/20/2007, -0/+3...to fit in with my dumb, irrational cow-orkers.
- Riggs, on 12/20/2007, -0/+2Excellent article. It covers a lot of the major social psychological issues present in society today.
- Ireland, on 12/20/2007, -0/+2But If we were 100% rational all of the time people wouldn't say that.
- Intangible360, on 12/20/2007, -1/+3What‽
- CancerBomb, on 12/20/2007, -0/+2In fact, the experiment was repeated several times with varying distances between the teacher and learner (i.e. the teacher couldn't see or hear the learner, the teacher could only hear the learner, the teacher could see and hear the learner, the teacher was in the same room as the learner and had to physically hold the learner's hand on a plate in order to administer the shocks, and possibly others that I've missed). As you might expect, conformity decreased as the learner got closer to the teacher, but there were still more people conforming than Milgram originally expected.
- thestorey, on 12/20/2007, -0/+2Money
- kakwakas, on 12/20/2007, -0/+1I hate blackout nights. D:
Last time I woke up with a hangover and a fat lip. - shig, on 12/20/2007, -1/+2Human beings are irrational by nature, and that is a good thing.
- Ireland, on 12/20/2007, -0/+1I have to friend you up with that "quote". I love Homer Simpson!
- inactive, on 08/26/2008, -0/+130 MINUTES?!?!? HOW FAST CAN YOU READ?!?!?!
- eeevildictator, on 12/20/2007, -0/+1lol its not like people are intentionally stupid just to liven things up a litte. It's a very complex topic, which is why all of these studies occur.
I suppose you point is true, but it has nothing to do with anything.
Lets see how much soil will accumulate above me in the next 4 hours.... - myfanwy, on 12/20/2007, -2/+3...because we're dumb and irrational
- CristiDiego, on 12/02/2008, -0/+0The human mind is really tricky... There are a lot of interesting articles over the web, I saw a few similar on http://www.epsychology.us I believe the good thing is that as we learn about how our brain is functioning we can control or change our behaviors.
- mickcn, on 12/20/2007, -1/+1Not all of us.
- mickcn, on 12/20/2007, -1/+1Its always solved mine. Clears the head....
- andrewcsayer, on 12/20/2007, -1/+1Too much MDMA
- busket, on 12/20/2007, -1/+1Does it cite digg at all? The words dumb and irrational pretty much sum up 60% of the headlines at any given time.
- inactive, on 08/26/2008, -1/+1...sorry....wrong window...
- storchid, on 08/22/2008, -0/+0I'm feeling dumb (Nirvana)
- blagoaw, on 12/20/2007, -1/+1If that were universally true and we could all agree upon it, I might agree with you. Though from a perspective of purpose, I'd say we're neither.. and it's things playing out mechanically. At the same time, we could be reasonably classified as both somewhat rational and somewhat irrational. It's a mess and people sometimes kill each other for their disagreements. No, I'd say that's just one perspective, and even when looking at it that way, isn't entirely such a good thing.
- mickcn, on 12/20/2007, -1/+1No, it wasn't. I think a look of terror would have changed quite a bit.
- warrenterr, on 12/20/2007, -2/+1man, that website has a weird writing style.
- eastdale12, on 12/20/2007, -6/+4We are both dumb and irrational. There, saved you 30 minutes of unnecessary clicking and reading.
; ) - axiomfive, on 12/20/2007, -2/+011. Pussy
- ithejosh, on 12/20/2007, -4/+111. Because we like people knowing we have a crappy host.
- Rubab, on 12/20/2007, -9/+6excellent post..
- inactive, on 08/26/2008, -4/+1yeah, but we ended up just burning them and taking turns with her. she was cool with it. she kept wondering why you wanted to the game instead of her house tho lol. trust me, you didn't miss much... ;)
- spyd3rweb, on 12/20/2007, -5/+1Bernays and Freud explain this pretty thoroughly.
- mickcn, on 12/20/2007, -5/+1eh, I've always seen most psychologists to be full of *****. Number 5, its pretty obvious that they would have gotten completely different results if they sat the "learner" directly in front of the "teacher" and really shocked him. And, I've known my fair share of people who where very good at reading others, and others who have very strong will power. I'm not saying psychologists are never right, I just don't like them. A good read, though.
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