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Science magazine includes this article claiming insights into human behavior that can "help conservation.":
In order of appearance, they are:
1. People have a strong tendency to avoid making difficult decisions, and as a result, they are prone to accepting whatever default option they are presented with—even when this option is not in their own, or society's, best interest.
[...] 2. People also have a cognitive bias that causes them to disproportionately weight initial information when making decisions.
[...] 3. ... there is a cognitive bias that causes people to perceive that losses hurt about twice as much as gains feel good, often referred to as loss aversion or prospect theory.
[...] 4. The decoy effect is the phenomenon that people tend to change their preference between two options when presented with a third option that is meant to be inferior in some regard (a decoy).
[...] 5. [We have an] ... innate desire for prestige, reputation, conformity, and reciprocity ... [so that our] ... decisions and actions are shaped by perceptions (whether accurate or not) of what other people do and what they approve.
[...] 6. People also behave differently when they think they are being observed.
[...] 7. ... we are also influenced by the source of our information ... [like] popular actors, athletes, or public figures.
Now that we know these, let's use them to accumulate power and own the world! But first we should use them to boost donations to SoylentNews!
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @02:44PM (9 children)
AC parent post, please take your ))white-supremacist(( shit elsewhere.
((They)) may be 15 points smarter IQ on average.
Some of ((them)) gravitate towards professions that insulate them socially and financially from assholes like ))you((.
Other than that, ((they)) are just like everybody else, including ))you((.
Rupert Murdoch, arguably the biggest destructive master media manipulator, is one of ++them++ and one of $$them$$, not one of ((them)).
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @03:20PM (8 children)
How did you get "))white supremacist((" and "Rupert Murdoch" from that post? While the AC seems a bit high on the "out there" quotient, your response indicates you are way out there as well.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @03:47PM (7 children)
Apologies to mods for this thread derail...
(((This))) is alt-right dog-whistle for "damn dirty Jew". Poster was implying that Jews are into orld-wide mind-control. I rebut that argument by noting Murdoch, proprietor of arguably the biggest, most comprehensive, profit-seeking mindfucking news media empire on the planet, is in no way Jewish. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
PS i advocate )))...((( to denote white-suprems. Think of it as triple-buttcheeks with a triple-asshole within.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @04:19PM (4 children)
you're a stupid fuck. just because some people use something in one particular way doesn't mean they own the term, even if both happen to denote the term with parenthesis.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @04:43PM
Now you know and can stop being ignorant.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @05:06PM (1 child)
Spotted the white-supremacist. Get the fuck out, loser!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @05:19PM
Spotted the white-supremacist. Get the fuck out, loser!
Now, now, let's try to not be any less civil to the 'you're-a-stupid-fuck' )))AC((( above than they would be to ((them))). Parens are civil and respectful, amirite?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @05:05AM
Who are you talking about then? The [[[lizard people]]]? Use square brackets for [[[them]]].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @04:59AM (1 child)
I like it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @09:04AM
What do you like?
Butts? You're a jew. Amirite?