Episode 33: Monkeys, Smurfs, and Human Conformity (With Laurie Santos)
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The Effects of Random Smirks on Brain Function
Psychologists do stupid things like you see the object We've and then oh lowerable objects. They're not right, but usually based on your own beliefs about where the object was you get it Right, this would be an incredibly boring sub study to do except that Kovacs and colleagues also added in this weird social component. So incidentally on the screen randomly while you're doing the task There's a smurf standing there who's sometimes paying attention and sometimes not. The question Kovacs and crew asked was Does what the smurf think about the location of this object behind the screen mess you up? No, you're just watching a thing You know where the object is but if the
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