Comments on: Berlin plan #2: Contagious attention

By: Berlin cognitive science safari: report « Mind Hacks

Berlin cognitive science safari: report « Mind Hacks — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:18:58 +0000

[...] and tried out some interventions based on classic experiments from psychology. Demonstration of strange allure of a crowd all looking the same way worked reasonably well (looking up is definitely more attention-capturing than horizontal gaze). So [...]

By: Meet me in Berlin « Mind Hacks

Meet me in Berlin « Mind Hacks — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:43:34 +0000

[...] The plan is taking shape! See parts #1, #2 and #3 Share this:StumbleUponDiggRedditTwitter This entry was written by tomstafford and posted [...]

By: Berlin plan #3: Instant social knowledge through unconscious perception « Mind Hacks

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:22:19 +0000

[...] to try a field test of the change blindness phenomenon, and to follow that up with an exercise in contaigous attention. For my final trick, I’m going to try something which demonstrates how rapidly, and [...]

By: amelie

amelie — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:42:01 +0000

Worst-case scenario the people at CERN collider will thank you for offsetting their recent delay.

By: amelie

amelie — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:36:57 +0000

I call it the sci fi effect; people stopping to stare at something when they should be running. I assume it’s because something like that doesn’t seem real right away. Symptom of a movie culture, perhaps?

By: meesher

meesher — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:44:24 +0000

And yes, I already bought both books.

By: meesher

meesher — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 09:43:37 +0000

As I read, I thought of a spectacle I’ve seen in my own life: people looking UP while watching one, and then the other, of the WTC towers come DOWN. I was surprised that so MANY civilians just stood and gasped, without running like hell in the opposite direction. I can understand why a “brave” and stoic cop might have stood his/her ground, but to NOT run? Fire and falling glass/bricks/people are all I need to hear my own feet clickety clicking in the opposite direction. On the other hand, I also remember telling a fellow passenger, on a bumpy flight (pre 9/11) when he was about to toss his cookies, that he “should not worry, I am a doctor.” When that damn flight finally landed in a wrong city (weather) we were given chits for dinners. At that dinner, I revealed (and I THOUGHT he already KNEW this), that I am a lawyer, not a doctor. He gasped. New experiment: what does a human DO when confronted by the mere idea that he or she is about to be ill in a public space?