Six Days in a Stanford Basement
Another of the thirty. This is the most famous experiment in psychology, and the archives say it did not happen the way you were taught.August 1971. A Stanford basement is dressed as a prison, students are assigned…
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The Evolutionary Logic of Self-Deception
Robert Trivers begins this chapter of The Folly of Fools by describing his efforts in the early 1970s to construct social theory based on natural selection. He aimed to understand the evolution of basic social…
Pre-Suasion
"Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade" is a deeply insightful book written by social psychologist Robert Cialdini, a recognized authority on the subject of persuasion. Published in 2016, it…
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