Social psychology experiments are a fashionable field. The celebrated author, psychologist Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel prize. He also happens to be the author of the best seller: Thinking fast and slow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I got to know about this field via Freakonomics and Hidden brain podcast. I was hooked to Social psychology. Fast forward, 600 days later I feel most of these are gibberish and unproven. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wonder if these authors and researchers did controlled observations and experiments for grants or publishing books. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
While watching the marshmallow experiment on YouTube and listening to the research outcome the question kept hitting me: What if the kids were fed marshmallows in all their meals, a week before conducting the experiment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Power posing, affirmation, similarity, fear, persuasion, etc are all packaged and sold to us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thanks to the society signaling, social media noise and smartphone (because we are dumb), these authors are leaving more impact on our consciousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Social psychology experiments are a fashionable field. The celebrated author, psychologist Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel prize. He also happens to be the author of the best seller: Thinking fast and slow. I got to know about this field via Freakonomics and Hidden brain podcast. I was hooked to Social psychology. Fast forward, 600 days … <\/p>\n