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Weapons of Influence #3: Social Proof (Ep. 193)

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The Bystander Effect

i want to talk about this whole phenomenon of pluralistic ignorance, and we'll get it into some of the active exploitation that people do. The bystander effect basically is the observation that when an emergency happens, when somebodyis being assaulted, attacked, or their having a hard attack,. They are much more likely to get help if there is one single bystander than if there are a bunch. People don't like to look like they don't know what they're doing. So instead of crouching down, looking around and asking, what do i do? I don't know hat i'm doing. Py, work on that little bit ook here. Dear listener, i always look at

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