The violinist’s social experiment on the subway was conducted to show that he looks unansed. It was first performed in 2007 and was repeated after seven years. Its protagonist was the famous violinist Joshua Bell, who proved that the human being knows how to ignore beauty. The experiment was organized by The Washington Post and […]
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During the 1950s, there was a real boom in all issues related to mental manipulation and brainwashing. At the end of that decade, James Vicary conducted a famous experiment on the supposed effectiveness of subliminal advertising, whose conclusions have over time been widely criticized. But that doesn’t stop him from continuing to be cited as
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Negotiation is an art we all practice. It’s not just about trade issues, it’s mainly about how we balance day-to-day obligations, duties and concessions. Investigators Moran Deutsch and Robert Krauss wanted to know why many of our negotiations fail. Thanks to the Deutsch experience They also managed to establish that there are two types of
Tuskegee’s experience is one of those real stories in which there are villains who seem to come out of a crazy imagination. This story also has its own hero, Peter Buxtun, who has demonstrated an inspiring truth: sometimes it only takes one man to decide to do whatever it takes to change everything. For many,
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David Cooper conducted an experiment that can be described as antipsychiatric in a place called Villa 21, the results are very encouraging, but for some strange reason, few psychiatrists take them into account in their diagnoses. What may be behind this intentional disrecognise are economic interests, of course, this brings more benefits for doping to
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Between 1961 and 1963, Canadian psychologist Albert Bandura conducted an experiment to analyze children’s behavior by seeing adult models showing aggressive behavior toward a puppet. In fact, Joo Bobo’s puppet experiment is an empirical demonstration of one of his best-known theories, the theory of social learning. This theory holds that much of human learning occurs
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John B. Watson is known as one of the fathers of classical conditioning. His main intellectual reference was Pavlov, the Russian-born physiologist who made his first discoveries about packaging. Watson conducted a famous study, known as the Albert Small Experiment. We’ll tell you the case in several parts. Ivan Pavlov conducted a famous experiment with
Ted Kaczynski is said to have one of the brightest minds today. Between 1976 and 1995, however, he sent 16 homemade bombs to protest technological advances. The FBI met him as Unabomber, a terrorist who participated in a Harvard experiment on CIA-supervised psychological control, known in turn as MK Ultra. Ted Kaczynski has been serving
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