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All Linked Up: An analysis on the growth of networks. 1 comment

tylo9876 wrote 3 weeks ago: Our latest reading is Linked written by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi. The reading centers on research and … more →

Tags: Section IV, duncan watts, Steven Strogratz, Network, zoom, Link, World Wide Web, Linked, Tim Berneres-Lee

Because I Can

Steve Coxon wrote 1 month ago: A few years ago, I worked with director Ben Lister and producer Marie-Cecile de Faucigny of Antidote … more →

Tags: About Me, Fiction, film, Scripts, Antidote Produxions, phil zimbardo, Scriptwriting, stanford prison experiment

Bill Wasik tells us how to go viral.

jeffkellylowenstein3 wrote 2 months ago:   Bill Wasik's And Then There's This helps us understand how outburst like Joe Wilson's … more →

Tags: Current Books, Steven Levitt, Malcolm Gladwell, the tipping point, Joe Wilson, you lie, going viral, Facebok, digg

It's a Small, Small World -- in Bangkok3 comments

Allison Loudermilk wrote 2 months ago: My husband is in Bangkok right now. Last night, he unexpectedly bumped into a guy I grew up with. Ne … more →

Tags: ScienceStuff, Small World, small world theory, Six Degrees of Separation, duncan watts, columbia small world project

The Tenth Level1 comment

monotreme1000 wrote 3 months ago: In 1961, Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, wanted an answer to a simple question: … more →

Tags: schools, Public Health, Pandemic, h1n1, swine flu, CDC, Thomas Frieden, obediance

The Power of Asking

psychologyofsuccess wrote 5 months ago: Bakari Akil II, Ph.D. “Excuse me. May I have your seat?”  In 1975, this is the question … more →

Tags: psychology of success, Success!, The Power of Yes or No, Asked to Give up Seats, Psychology, Subway, The New York Times, Yes or No

Virtual Milgram

The Situationist Staff wrote 6 months ago: From ICT Results: Despite advances in computer graphics, few people would think virtual characters o … more →

Tags: Classic Experiments, Illusions, Video, Obedience, phobias, Virtual Reality

The Situational Effect of Groups1 comment

The Situationist Staff wrote 7 months ago: In his Guardian article, “Hands up if you’re an individual,” Stuart Jeffries offer … more →

Tags: Choice Myth, Classic Experiments, .:*Conflict*:., Implicit Associations, Situationist Contributors, Social Psychology, contagion theory, convergence theory, crowds

Zimbardo on Milgram and Obedience - Part II3 comments

The Situationist Staff wrote 7 months ago: Situationist Contributer Philip Zimbardo has authored the preface to a new edition of social psychol … more →

Tags: book, Classic Experiments, Social Psychology, philip zimbardo, situationism, stanford prison experiment

Zimbardo on Milgram and Obedience - Part II3 comments

The Situationist Staff wrote 7 months ago: Situationist Contributer Philip Zimbardo has authored the preface to a new edition of social psychol … more →

Tags: book, Classic Experiments, Social Psychology, philip zimbardo, situationism, stanford prison experiment

Zimbardo on Milgram and Obedience - Part I3 comments

The Situationist Staff wrote 7 months ago: Situationist contributer Philip Zimbardo has authored the preface to a new edition of social psychol … more →

Tags: book, Classic Experiments, .:*Conflict*:., Social Psychology, Kurt Lewin, Obedience, phil zimbardo, Solomon Asch

Lost Update - Who Will Save Your Soul14 comments

LOTGK wrote 7 months ago: Lost Update – Season V – 04/08/2009 Who will save your soul when it comes to the flowers … more →

Tags: Lost Secrets, aliens, Lost, abc lost, Virtual Reality, Lost Theories, Oceanic 815, Ivan Pavlov

"You're suspicious to me."37 comments

Mark Grannis wrote 7 months ago: The Campaign for Liberty is a political organization formed last year to continue advocating the pol … more →

Tags: Public Policy, constitution, Citizenship, civility, failure of imagination, Liberty, Ron Paul, Campaign for Liberty, philip zimbardo

MI5 and MI6 to publish interrogation rules1 comment

josephlogan wrote 8 months ago: This, if genuine, is a milestone in preserving honesty and transparency in global security: The rule … more →

Tags: Current Events, Studying organizations, Decision Making, Torture, Interrogation, gordon brown, Binyam Mohamed, Extraordinary Rendition

The Positive Situation of Crowds1 comment

The Situationist Staff wrote 8 months ago: The Economist has an interesting piece on the psychology of crowds.  We excerpt the piece below. * * … more →

Tags: Life, crowds, Mark Levin, Mel Slater

more on the 9*9*9

academama wrote 8 months ago: Update on the reading project: Despite having a time crunch to finish with my library books (for my … more →

Tags: Books, 999, Anthony Burgess, Daphne du Maurier, John Polidori, Horace Walpole, Alfred McCoy, Thomas Beckford, William Cash

More about Social Networking tools

Tor Livar wrote 9 months ago: In my last post I wrote a little about networking tools like Facebook and LinkedIn. I also posted a … more →

Tags: Online Life, facebook, LinkedIn, social networking, nexus, ACM, communications of the ACM, Jon Kleinberg, Six Degrees of Separation

Questioning Authority: A Rethinking of the Infamous Milgram Experiments

rogerhollander wrote 9 months ago: By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. Posted February 12, 2009. A famous 1970s experiment was recently replic … more →

Tags: science and technology, CIA torture, roger hollander, Guantanamo, abu ghraib, iraq, john dean, Bush administration, Authority

Doing the unthinkable: Obeying Commands to do Evil8 comments

Phil wrote 10 months ago: Have you ever wondered how a person could participate in a genocide? How was it that the average Ger … more →

Tags: christian psychology, Christianity, conflicts, Cultural Anthropology, Psychology, genocide, Obedience


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