jtotheizzoe: Third Person Effect: an excerpt from You Are Not So Smart This is quickly shaping up to be my most anticipated book of the year. Click through to read the full excerpt! The Misconception: You believe your opinions and decisions are based on experience and facts, while those who disagree with you are falling for the lies and propaganda of sources you don’t trust. The Truth: Everyone believes the people they disagree with are gullible, and everyone thinks they are far less susceptible to persuasion than they truly are. I can see right through that politician’s lies. People are such sheep. People are so stupid. People will believe anything. I prefer to lead, not follow. Have you ever thought like this? Would it blow your mind to know everyone thinks this? If everyone thinks they aren’t gullible and can’t be swayed by advertising, political rhetoric, or charismatic con artists, then someone must be deluding themselves. Sometimes it’s you. (via Boing Boing)
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jtotheizzoe:

Third Person Effect: an excerpt from You Are Not So Smart

This is quickly shaping up to be my most anticipated book of the year. Click through to read the full excerpt!

The Misconception: You believe your opinions and decisions are based on experience and facts, while those who disagree with you are falling for the lies and propaganda of sources you don’t trust.

The Truth: Everyone believes the people they disagree with are gullible, and everyone thinks they are far less susceptible to persuasion than they truly are.

I can see right through that politician’s lies. People are such sheep. People are so stupid. People will believe anything. I prefer to lead, not follow.

Have you ever thought like this? Would it blow your mind to know everyone thinks this?

If everyone thinks they aren’t gullible and can’t be swayed by advertising, political rhetoric, or charismatic con artists, then someone must be deluding themselves. Sometimes it’s you.

(via Boing Boing)

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jtotheizzoe:

The video above might freak you out a little. If you stare at the point in the center, it feels like grotesque monsters are flashing by on the edges. Yet those faces haven’t been altered in any way. They’ve only been lined up by their eye-level.

Being able to quickly read facial communication (emotion, expression, attention, etc.) is deeply embedded in primate brains.  The way that humans process faces is a direct result of how the face is put together, with exact arrangements and proportions. But when we are forced to view them quickly, and with our visual perception altered just a tiny bit, it can throw off the whole process. That’s why you see the caricatures that you do.

(via What’s in a Face?)

PS - I don’t particularly like the title of this video, because it completely overlooks the science going on, but hey, that’s YouTube!

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