![]() ![]() However, rap music affected his rating the most negatively. Rock music and retro songs caused his rating to fall. Result: The taxi driver noticed that his rating on the app dropped and rose depending on the type of music he was playing inside the cab. The results might just surprise some of you Pandas. The driver conducted his mini-experiments in week-long stretches he'd switch up the music after 7 days. A taxi driver changed the music in his car, then noted how this affect his passengers' behavior, as well as his rating on the taxi app. What's left to determine is to what extent. Idea: Our surroundings and environment can affect how we (re)act. Don't always assume that someone else will help, that someone is specified to take action on behalf of others. Don't let the passivity of others result in your inaction. If the group acts as if everything is OK then it must be, right? Wrong. We seem to rely heavily on the responses of others even against our own instincts. The experiment was a great example of people responding slower (or not at all) to emergency situations in the presence of passive others. 9 out of 10 subjects actually kept working on the questionnaire, while rubbing their eyes and waving smoke out of their faces. However when two actors were present, who were working with the experimenters and told to act as if nothing was wrong, only 10% of the subjects left the room or reported the smoke. ![]() The average time to report was 2 minutes of first noticing the smoke. Results: When alone, 75% of people reported the smoke almost immediately. ![]() What do you do? You would get up and leave, tell someone in charge and do so without hesitation, right? Now imagine the same situation, except that you are not alone, you are with several other people who don't seem to care about the smoke. Idea: This experiment had people alone in a room filling out a questionnaire, when smoke starts coming from under the door. Three days earlier, Bell had played to a full house at Boston’s Symphony Hall, where seats went for over $100. The experiment raised some interesting questions about how we not only value beauty, but extent that which the setting and presentation make a difference. No one noticed that one of the best musicians in the world had played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars. ![]() No one applauded, nor was there any recognition. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace. Result: Only 6 people stopped and stayed to listen for a while. were, without publicity, treated to a free mini-concert performed by violin virtuoso Joshua Bell, who played for approximately 45 minutes, performing six classical pieces (two of which were by Bach), on his handcrafted 1713 Stradivarius violin (for which Bell reportedly paid $3.5 million). Idea: On 12th January 2007, about a thousand morning commuters passing through a subway station in Washington, D.C. I wonder if Rosenhan had read Chekhov's "Ward No. Instead of investigating the issue, nobody regarded their behavior as normal, because apparently inside the walls of a psychiatric hospital, the only sane ones are the employees. However, they were still treated as having mental problems. The pseudo-patients would flush the medications down the toilet, and continue acting in a calm, rational fashion, writing down their observations of the staff and the other patients. Result: The medical staff in the hospitals still regarded the pseudo-patients as mentally ill and fed them antipsychotic meds. After admission, however, they behaved perfectly normal, telling the medical staff in the hospitals that their hallucinations had disappeared. To be admitted into the hospitals, the pseudo-patients complained about auditory hallucinations. where they were all diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. Rosenhan's stance was based on research conducted by himself and seven other experimenters who acted as pseudo-patients in different hospitals around the U.S. Idea: In his 1973 paper “On Being Sane in Insane Places”, psychologist David Rosenhan strongly criticized the psychiatric hospitals and the treatment the patients received there, but most of all, he criticized the quality of the psychiatric diagnosis. ![]()
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