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The Locked Door and Monkey See, Monkey Do. The Locked Door: The Secret Life of Snap Decisions. Primed for Action & Scrambled Sentences: (1) aggressively, bold, rude, bother, disturb intrude, infringe (2) respect, considerate, appreciate, patiently, yield, polite, courteous
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The Locked Door: The Secret Life of Snap Decisions Primed for Action & Scrambled Sentences: (1) aggressively, bold, rude, bother, disturb intrude, infringe (2) respect, considerate, appreciate, patiently, yield, polite, courteous Steel & Aronson’s “Stereotype Threat” Race identification and educational performance
Getting That “6th Sense” withBlue (good)&Red (bad)Decks of Cards
The Wisdom of Crowds: Independence “finding the party” on Friday and Saturday nights and the “herds” of UR students wandering around campus in something of a “circular mill” “herding” and NFL coaches’ 4th down decisions “imitation” and “social proof” e.g., Milgram’s “staring into the empty sky” experiment crowd sizes and responses ( 1 person = tiny fraction of public) ( 5 persons = 4 times as many) (15 persons = 45% stopped and stared) (20 persons = 80% stopped and stared)
The Wisdom of Crowds: Independence “information cascades” (aggregate information like the Stock Market or casinos or voting systems) e.g., plank roads (8 vs. 4 years durability) e.g., telecoms and 1,000% annual growth good information cascades e.g., the humble screw Collective decisions are most likely to be good ones when they’re made by people with diverse opinions reaching independent, non-sequential conclusions, relying primarily on their own private information.
Speed-Dating, the Storytelling Problem, and Group Decision-Making Task: (1.) break into teams of 2 students (2.) come up with 1 question of your own that you would want to ask everyone you met in a speed-dating scenario (3.) come up with 1 more question for your teammate, based on their personality, which you think they should also ask (4.) as a team, pick your 2 favorite questions (from your 4) (5.) vote as a class (“crowd”) on the 6 favorite questions (6.) try to come up with reasons for your preferences/votes