[HN Gopher] The Mindlessness of Ostensibly Thoughtful Action (19...
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The Mindlessness of Ostensibly Thoughtful Action (1978) [pdf]
Author : canthandle
Score : 23 points
Date : 2024-10-25 18:15 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| dang wrote:
| This is the "can I make some copies because I need to make some
| copies" experiment that Robert Cialdini wrote about in his
| fantastic book _Influence_.
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| https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11348375
| gwern wrote:
| At this point, most of the stuff in a corrected edition of
| _Influence_ would have a bunch of asterisks in it or have to be
| deleted for failing to replicate or being fraudulent. I wonder
| how well this old social psych priming/influence experiment has
| held up...
| dang wrote:
| It's still a great book because his anecdotes are so fun. The
| sequel was terrible though.
| plesner wrote:
| Their model of scripts and mindlessness is only one of many
| possible explanations of the behavior they're seeing. And I don't
| even know where to start with the sending letters to random
| doctors thing.
|
| Is this actually a thing that was/is taken seriously?
| krzat wrote:
| This kind of human interaction is way too quick to have any
| deeper thinking involved. Because brains are prediction machines,
| if something unexpected happens that requires a quick response,
| it will be fully handled via autopilot.
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| If it was done via text messages I would expect a different
| outcome.
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