187. Robert Cialdini — Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Laws Are Going for the Bystander
At the university of texas, if you hear somebody making an off color sex joke to a student and don't say anything, you're in trouble. So there the laws is kind of going for the bystander. I agree with his critics that malcolm gladwell's plucking out one social psychi experimentorOne cognitive psychi experiment, and then spinning a whole story around it. Do we default the truth, or do we default to scepticism? Or do we default to nothing? Well, i think a hold or holdar or a council until we see what the evidence is.
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