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Fruits and vegetables, before and after human intervention. 

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10 Popular Social Psychology Experiments

Have you ever wondered how groups, other people, and social norms influence our behaviour? Social psychology can give answers to some of these questions. Here are some of the classic and most famous social psychology experiments and theories.

1. Social Facilitation

Allport (1920) introduced the idea that the presence of others when performing certain tasks can facilitate their actions. For example, it was found that when a group of actors were performing tasks which they already knew or were relatively easy, the presence of an audience would improve the performance. However, if the tasks were new or of a higher difficulty, a decrease in performance was observed.

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The Halo Effect

A judgement discrepancy or cognitive bias developed from a first encounter.  It’s what makes first impressions so important but in the long run substance wins all the time.  The effect may lose basis over an extended period of time if a person is successful in persuading the other through words/actions.  But how many of us get this 2nd chance. 

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A medical examiner views the body of Ronald Opus and concludes that he’s died from a gunshot wound to the head.

Investigation to that point revealed that the decedent had jumped from the top of a 10-story building with the intent to commit suicide. (He left a note indicating his despondency.) As he passed the 9th floor on the way down, his attempt was interrupted by a shotgun blast through a window, killing him instantly. 

Neither the shooter nor the deceased was aware that a safety net had been erected at the 8th floor to protect some window washers, and that the Ronald Opus would most likely not have been able to complete his suicide attempt, 

Ordinarily, a person who sets out to commit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even if the mechanism isn’t what they intended, it is defined as having committed suicide, which works out in the favour of the shooter obviously because cause of death will remain as suicide. 

But what the hell about that net, right? Because Ronald never would have been successful.  So, it caused the medical examiner to feel that he had homicide on his hands. Let’s look into suspects

Investigations found that the origin of the shotgun blast was an elderly man living w/ his wife.

 It started off, with the old guy threatening her with the shotgun because of some argument.  He also had a habit of shooting his wife the shotgun but both knew it wasnt loaded and hasnt been for years.  So, who loaded the gun? Whoever did it, knew 2 things -- it wasn’t loaded and  the habit of the old man and probably had the intention of murdering the old woman. 

But further investigation turned up a witness that their son was seen loading the shotgun prior to the fatal accident. That investigation showed that the mother (the old lady) had cut off her son's financial support, and her son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that the father would shoot his mother. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.

Now comes the exquisite twist.  the son turned out to be Ronald Opus himself, He had become increasingly despondent over the failure of getting his mother murdered. This led him to jump off the building, only to be killed by a shotgun blast through a 9th story window.The medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.

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Millennials are Killing the Bed Frame Industry: Feminist Edition

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Premature babies, instead of full term babies, are usually casted in movies as they look like a newborn yet meet the minimum 15-day-old requirement for them to “work”. Twins and triplets are preferred as the babies tend to be smaller, and filming hours can be prolonged.

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The “Cordoba Fighting Dog” was a breed developed in Argentina for dog fighting. As breeders continuously favored the most aggressive dogs, they became difficult to breed since they preferred to fight rather than mate. This contributed to the breed’s extinction.

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U.S. President James Buchanan regularly bought slaves in Washington, D.C. and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania.

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JFK’s father Joseph Kennedy made much of his fortune through insider trading. FDR later made him chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. When asked why he appointed a crook, FDR replied, “set a thief to catch a thief.” Kennedy proceeded to outlaw the practices that made him rich.

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The Samsung company accounts for 15% of South Korea’s entire economy, and that South Koreans often live in Samsung owned apartment buildings, can get treatment from Samsung-owned medical centers, go to Samsung universities, and even end up at a Samsung funeral parlor when they die. Photo :  Hans Olav Lien / wikimedia

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The first major investor in Facebook, Peter Thiel, made over $1 Billion from his original $500,000 investment by selling his shares. A 200,000% return on his investment. Photo : Dan Taylor / Heisenberg Media

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The reason there are so many Thai restaurants in America, is that the Thai government has been training and exporting chefs, using a tactic known as “gastrodiplomacy”. Photo : Calgary Reviews / Flickr

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There are libraries in Los Angeles that let kids read to pay off their late fees. Each hour a child spends reading at county-run libraries knocks $5 off their account. Library staff say at least 100 kids each week read away their debt and 3,500 suspended accounts were cleared during the first 6 months of the program.