Sozialpsychologie
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- 39 students got the same personality profile. All found it accurate.
In 1949 Bertram Forer gave his 39 students supposedly individual assessments – in fact the identical text, assembled …
- Ask for something absurd first, then the real thing.
In 1975 Cialdini asked students to mentor teenagers weekly for two years. Almost everyone refused. Right after, he …
- Everyone nods. Nobody is convinced.
Irving Janis described eight signs in 1972: illusions of invulnerability, rationalising warnings away, stereotyping …
- Everyone thinks it's wrong. Each believes they're the only one.
In 1993 Prentice and Miller surveyed students about campus drinking. Nearly all believed their peers were far more …
- How to come across as likeable without talking about yourself.
Huang and colleagues showed in 2017 that people who ask more questions are liked more. Follow-up questions that build …
- More witnesses, less help – usually.
A 2011 meta-analysis of 105 studies confirms the bystander effect: in groups, everyone feels less responsible, and …
- Nobody noticed your embarrassing T-shirt. Really.
In 2000 Gilovich had students wear a Barry Manilow shirt into a seminar room. They estimated about half the people …
- People spot lies 54 percent of the time. A coin flip gets 50.
In 2006 Bond and DePaulo pooled some 206 studies with 24,483 judges. On average they were right 54 percent of the time. …
- The bigger the group, the quieter you shout.
Latané and colleagues had people shout as loudly as they could. Believing one other person was shouting, they produced …
- The famous 150 friends is a very shaky number.
Robin Dunbar extrapolated from brain size and group size across 38 primate genera to about 150 stable human …
- The most famous prison study is now considered methodologically hollow.
Zimbardo's 1971 study was stopped after six days. In 2019 Thibault Le Texier used the archives to show guards were …
- They liked the conversation more than you think.
In 2018 Boothby and colleagues had strangers talk, then estimate how much the other person liked them. Nearly everyone …
- Why a tiny request sets up the big one.
In 1966, Freedman and Fraser asked homeowners to put a huge “Drive Carefully” sign in their front yard. Only 17% …
- Why the simplest strategy won a tournament full of tricks.
In the prisoner's dilemma betrayal pays in one round, but mutual cooperation pays both more over time. Robert Axelrod …
- You like things simply because you see them often.
Starting in 1968, Zajonc showed that people rate a symbol, face or word more positively the more often they see it – …
- Your nerves are far less visible than you think.
Gilovich, Savitsky and Medvec showed in 1998 that people greatly overestimate how well others can read their inner …