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  2. Herd mentality - Wikipedia

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    The scientists discovered that people end up blindly following one or two instructed people who appear to know where they are going. The results of this experiment showed that it only takes 5% of confident looking and instructed people to influence the direction of the other 95% of people in the crowd, and the 200 volunteers did this without ...

  3. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Egocentric bias is the tendency to rely too heavily on one's own perspective and/or have a different perception of oneself relative to others. [34] The following are forms of egocentric bias: Bias blind spot, the tendency to see oneself as less biased than other people, or to be able to identify more cognitive biases in others than in oneself. [35]

  4. 28 Industries That Have Their Entire Foundation Built ... - AOL

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    Image credits: ataraxia77 We also spoke to our expert about the psychological principles that are most commonly exploited by industries to mislead people. She noted that these principles often ...

  5. Herd behavior - Wikipedia

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    Shimmering behaviour of Apis dorsata (giant honeybees). A group of animals fleeing from a predator shows the nature of herd behavior, for example in 1971, in the oft-cited article "Geometry for the Selfish Herd", evolutionary biologist W. D. Hamilton asserted that each individual group member reduces the danger to itself by moving as close as possible to the center of the fleeing group.

  6. Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War - Wikipedia

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    Writer Vernon Lee owned a first edition of Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War: Leen wrote marginalia into her copy taking issue with Trotter's ideas. Lee's notes criticised Trotter's ideas of organicism and his use of "crowd theory", and disagreed with Trotter's support for the First World War.

  7. Column: The dangers of blindly following totalitarian rule

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    During the question and answer session, both people spoke separately and together answering every question that was asked. As most of the audience was running out of questions, I was just warming up.

  8. Cognitive dissonance - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive dissonance is typically experienced as psychological stress when persons participate in an action that goes against one or more of those things. According to this theory, when an action or idea is psychologically inconsistent with the other, people do all in their power to change either so that they become consistent.

  9. Blind men and an elephant - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known version was recorded in the one of Buddhist scriptures, known as Tittha Sutta. [3] In another scripture known as Canki Sutta, the Buddha describes a row of blind men holding on to each other as an example of those who follow an old text that has passed down from generation to generation. [12]