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What They Don’t Teach You in Business School (LINK) Thoughts on Fastenal (LINK) Bill Miller on CNBC (videos) [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK) Paul Graham: Default Alive or Default Dead (LINK) The Upside of Having to Pee - by Jonah Lehrer (LINK) When Prime Minister...
- An Interview With Robert Cialdini
Link to: The Uses (and Abuses) of InfluenceRobert Cialdini, considered the leading social scientist in the field of influence, was initially drawn to the topic because he saw how easily people could step over an ethical line into manipulation or even...
- Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?
Thanks to Andrew for passing this along. When I met for lunch with Dr. Phil Zimbardo, the former president of the American Psychological Association, I knew him primarily as the mastermind behind The Stanford Prison Experiment. In the summer of 1971,...
- Smart People, Dumb Decisions - By Michael Mauboussin
Originally found via Simoleon Sense. If you ask people to offer adjectives that they associate with good decision makers, words like “intelligent” and “smart” are generally at the top of the list. Yet, history contains plenty of examples of smart...
- Wired Interview With Barry Schwartz
LONG BEACH, California -- Psychologist Barry Schwartz delivers the final presentation of TED 2009 on Saturday. Wired.com spoke to Schwartz about practical wisdom, moral skill without moral will, and the roles of hope and virtue. Wired: You call practical...
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Resisting Influence - Philip Zimbardo and Cindy X. Wang
In The Lucifer Effect, we examined how social situations lead ordinary people to commit unimaginable acts of violence, discrimination, and indifference to the suffering of others. Many of us hope that if we were placed in such situations, we would be the courageous ones who resist unjust authority, who are immune to compliance tactics, and who never abandon our core beliefs and principles in the face of social pressures. However, the reality is we can never predict our actions without being placed in similar situations. This is one of the recurring themes of “The Lucifer Effect” and something that should not be lost on us as we make everyday decisions.
- Links
What They Don’t Teach You in Business School (LINK) Thoughts on Fastenal (LINK) Bill Miller on CNBC (videos) [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK) Paul Graham: Default Alive or Default Dead (LINK) The Upside of Having to Pee - by Jonah Lehrer (LINK) When Prime Minister...
- An Interview With Robert Cialdini
Link to: The Uses (and Abuses) of InfluenceRobert Cialdini, considered the leading social scientist in the field of influence, was initially drawn to the topic because he saw how easily people could step over an ethical line into manipulation or even...
- Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?
Thanks to Andrew for passing this along. When I met for lunch with Dr. Phil Zimbardo, the former president of the American Psychological Association, I knew him primarily as the mastermind behind The Stanford Prison Experiment. In the summer of 1971,...
- Smart People, Dumb Decisions - By Michael Mauboussin
Originally found via Simoleon Sense. If you ask people to offer adjectives that they associate with good decision makers, words like “intelligent” and “smart” are generally at the top of the list. Yet, history contains plenty of examples of smart...
- Wired Interview With Barry Schwartz
LONG BEACH, California -- Psychologist Barry Schwartz delivers the final presentation of TED 2009 on Saturday. Wired.com spoke to Schwartz about practical wisdom, moral skill without moral will, and the roles of hope and virtue. Wired: You call practical...