Comments on: Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies

By: MGL in Mo.

MGL in Mo. — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:41:09 +0000

Good Information.

By: Quintin Jenkins

Quintin Jenkins — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:54:49 +0000

Wow! Enjoyed reading each study. Another good title would be, "10 Studies Why You'll Mess Up In Relationships" ;o) Keep up the great posts on Twitter. Aloha, Q.

By: Honey Singh

Honey Singh — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:29:46 +0000

Thanks for synchronizing so many facts under one ground.
Just stumbled your post. :P

By: blackatz56

blackatz56 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:57:07 +0000

bystander apathy.I see that everyday,all the time.Many,many times I have and will always stop and help someone in distress,but I see that most people wouldn't.Is it fear of some kind of repercussion in the negative?Has the media so desensitized us that we fear of helping one another?It is truly sad that we have abandoned our positive social graces.Tv,radio,video games and the internet has broken us from our skills of physical communication.we don't physically communicate with one another any more with our five senses.We have abandoned our three most important senses:smell,touch,taste.Sight and sound are the only two we use with our current communication systems.Thank you for reminding me of this with this study.

By: Octopus

Octopus — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:03:47 +0000

I believe that #2, #4 and #5 are harvesting all the votes because they are well-known experiments, and they are simply more popular for that reason alone. People are voting for whats familiar to them. I could do a social psychology experiment to prove that claim if you'd like. ;)

By: b4i4get

b4i4get — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:42:00 +0000

I found it interesting that in the article on #5, the Obedience to Authority experiment, we were told by the author that this was a classic and brilliant experiment. Since the readers were told to choose the most brilliant experiment of all time, I am wondering if this remark had anything to do with the Obedience to Authority experiment receiving the largest number of votes?

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:21:00 +0000

I, too, enjoyed this series of articles and learned from them. Here's my question: What does research say about outliers? That is, is there a certain kind of person who tends to be the exception in one or more of these experimental situations?

By: hypermod

hypermod — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:07:00 +0000

I agree with everyone here, thereby drawing comfort in conforming to the norm.

By: alissa

alissa — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:26:00 +0000

Thank you for putting this all together. This is a very interesting post. I'm pretty young still (sophomore in high school) but I am fascinated by psychology and love opening my mind to new aspects of it. This has definitely helped me learn a lot.

By: teajay

teajay — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:20:00 +0000

Loved the post. Thanks for bringing the experiments together in such an easy to understand manner.