Der Mensch, das soziale, symbolisch gesteuerte
Tier!!
Eine wunderbare Demonstration der unbewussten
Steuerung menschlichen Verhaltens und einer der wesentlichen sozialpsychologischen
Grundlagen meiner sozialrealistischen Soziologie des Unbewussten!
"Social conformity is an interesting aspect
of human behavior, because it’s so tremendously more
powerful than most people realize. It is
able to quickly shape the actions and even thoughts and ideas of people exposed
to group behaviors or thoughts. It has a
lot to do with the bystander effect and many other seemingly irrational
behaviors.
This little experiment looks at just what’s going on with people exposed to group behavior. The unaware test subject entered an
optometrist’s waiting room full of other patients. Shortly after sitting down, a beep played in
the waiting room, and everyone else stood up, then sat back down. After just three beeps, the subject joined
in, standing and then sitting, with absolutely no idea why she was doing it.
Where it gets even more interesting is that even
after every other person in the waiting room had been called away and she was
the only one left in the room, she continued to stand each time she heard the
beep. And when other unsuspecting people
came in, she actually managed to get all of them doing it too –
creating the social norm for them that she had been exposed to herself before,
while still having absolutely no idea why.
If everyone else was jumping off the Brooklyn
Bridge, would you too? Well, yes, mom,
apparently there’s a reasonable chance I probably
would. OK, maybe not me specifically,
considering I have a tendency to behave somewhat independently of norms anyway
(much to my wife’s chagrin), but still… Herd mentality is alive and well it
seems."