Even just an image of eyes on the wall is enough to change people’s behavior to be more honest: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060628091247.htm
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Prior research had shown that just icons of eyes would help compliance; I guess it sort of reminds people others can see their behaviour.
This research seems an extension of that... and I am enjoying it
Just a dude in full clown outfit, sitting silently in the middle of the train with a massive grin on his face, holding a big clearly marked stick of 'Dynamite' and a huge matchstick.
According to the article it's not really about the character itself but rather introducing an unusual, offbeat element seems to make groups of people more empathetic.
44% of people who ceded their place to the pregnant woman in the study reported not even noticing the Batman. So this is some kind of subconscious effect on the crowd I guess.
Neat, cheaters believe in ghosts
Maybe we can have a violent clown threaten to blow up another train
Pretty much.
I find these results quite surprising, since I feel like I would be far less likely to notice someone needing my seat if there was a distracting person in a superhero costume. But maybe people audibly react, which causes more people to look up from their phones?
iirc more or less that shitty people don't return their shopping carts and not shitty people do
idr the exact wording or alleged conclusions
What's that theory?
Because if Batman is around, there's probably a camera too.
I can’t find it now, but there was an experiment where people were given a skill game to try and let alone in a (recorded) room, then self reported their score.
When the experimenter casually mentioned that this rocking chair over here was his late grandmother’s, he was just keeping it there until he could move it to his home, because he felt her presence in it, nobody lied about their score.
So, Batman and granny ghosts.
Seems a proof of the shopping cart theory to me
I wonder if the same results would be true with any sort of law enforcement figure present
Would need to see tests done. Try other threat stimuli, other Batman colour palettes. A pink one, for example.
That’s not altruism, that’s fear.
I didn’t talk about about it for 10-15 years
No doubt, I would be embarrassed to admit to this. They wrote this whole article and didn’t mention how stupid it is.
Using real knives is so colossally stupid, Britney Spears even uses fake knives in her unhinged solo Instagram dance videos.
This is like getting shot while doing a TikTok and then writing a whole article on it for the Guardian how you finished the TikTok and it was emotional to go back.
As someone committed to my craft, I’ve always believed that the show must go on. An accident in my second year of university took it to new extremes.
That was your takeaway??
some serious method acting
Gotta respect the hustle
A real momma's boy
Hellooo!
It's mini human brains grown in a lab all the way down!
mini human brains grown in a lab?
Fight.... for your right.. to Vegemite!