Wednesday, January 24, 2018

24/Serial

If I had stayed a psych major I probably could have written a paper on what happened that night. It illustrated so clearly how people manage to believe what they want to believe, no matter how obvious the flaws in what's presented to them. It also demonstrated how a belief can spread throughout a group, affecting even those who don't want to believe it at all. An interesting psychological experiment, yes, but at the time all we knew is that our crazy scheme succeeded beyond our wildest expectations. Until it didn't.
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5 comments:

  1. CedarwaxwingJanuary 24, 2018 at 6:51 AM

    I'm enjoying and somewhat astonished at, these stories of your youth, Susan.

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  2. SabineJanuary 25, 2018 at 4:37 AM

    Did you get Trump elected as a joke? What year is this?

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  3. SusanJanuary 25, 2018 at 6:22 AM

    It was 1961, so Trump would have been 15--still studying racist practices under the tutelage of his father.

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    1. SusanJanuary 25, 2018 at 6:24 AM

      But yes, as I wrote this post I realized the lessons could easily apply to Trump's election (and continuing support) as well as the rise of Hitler.

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