Human Behavior
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Human Behavior
via Rory Sutherland: Humans don’t always maximize utility. We have two inbuilt modes: habit (do what I’ve done before) and social copying (do what others do).
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. The Black Swan: The impact of the highly improbable. Random House, 2007.
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The Bandwagon Effect (also called “herd mentality”) is when people do something primarily because other people are doing it, regardless of their original feelings or beliefs.
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This video is a masterclass in psychology.
The first person to do something always looks weird. People laugh. Then somebody else joins. Then the crowds come in and the person who started the whole thing goes from looking like a goon to looking like a genius. https://t.co/4iwHriOYoo
David Perelltwitter.comI hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.