Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Individuals in Groups.

According to the article "Individuals in Groups" by Carol Tavris,  Diffusing responsibilities in emergencies is when individuals among groups of people fail to act during danger in order help others. I do see that most of the time individuals among groups will not react, because they think  someone else has already taken care of the situation, and the larger the group the less likely is for someone to respond to any situation.

I found out, individuals react to extreme situations more often than when there is a large group of people.I learned that extreme situations were often taken care better by an individual person because no one was around. I myself feel a greater amount of courage while alone than in company of others. Extreme situations are often ignored by people not because they want to avoid to help, but maybe the reason is based on the fact that one does not want to cause personal involvement.

People react in accordance to who is around, and this psychological reaction has an effect on how a person responds to any given dangerous situation. I think that it also depends on the situation, for example; we are bound to obey the flow from the reaction that an entire group of people will have in a dangerous situation. If the entire group runs I am pretty sure I will run too. My entire disregard of the situation will dissipate because of the unknown parameter of the situation.

I think that "Diffusion of responsibility" is a generalization of how an individual is supposed to react to danger among groups of people. Often we disregard the obvious not because we fear judgement but because the origins of the situation are unknown to us at the time. Causing us to ignore to help others. The grater amount of courage given by a person is when they see that no one is around to help.
   


   


Wednesday, March 12, 2014

summarie Jeffrey Kluger.

In the article " In know the truth, so don't bother Me with facts", Jeffrey Kluger explains how humans have long being naive towards how society manipulates rumors and lies. The author also mentions the scientific studies that shown how often people conflict with rumors that contradict personal beliefs; just after knowing the facts, most people tend to change personal opinions.

Studies generated by R. Kelly Garrett and Erik Nisbet, assistant professors of communication at Ohio State University, remark how people generated opinions towards the rumor about the proposed Islamic cultural center near ground zero in New York City. Often exposure to the facts generates changes in opinion. The studies then concluded with the response that, it is easy to manipulate people's beliefs and often people are willing to reverse personal opinion in accordance with the input. Often people that know the facts find conflicts with personal opinions. Unintentionally people generate opinions according to personal beliefs.

Even after people know the facts the tendency is to have a generalization from personal opinions, meaning that even after knowing the facts people are guided by their believes. In the end the matter of knowing the truth and generating an opinion could be entirely guided by the fact that no one likes being wrong.   



objective summarie from Jeffrey Kluger.

In the article " I know the truth, so don't bother me with facts", Jeffrey Kluger explains how humans have long been naive towards how society manipulates rumors and lies. according to the article, scientific studies have shown that people often conflict with rumors that contradict personal beliefs. Just after knowing the facts, most people tend to change opinions. 

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Hype "wrting" blog post. Julian Palacio


Increase in commercial advertisement has happened so steadily and relentlessly that we have not quite woken up to the absurdity of it at all. The general idea about advertisement is to be seeing by the general public. Often the means of advertisement are abhorrent and obscure because companies are careless. Companies see advertisement as a way to generate unconscious ideas that get people to buy or do for the profitable benefits. These companies do not see people as people; they often look at statistics that are generated by people in regards to what people like to do or see.  It is impossible to ignore adverts, since they are everywhere; and the industry that designs these adverts are impose on making them as tasteful and attractive to the viewers.  Besides preparation, adverts are not profitable without placement. In the early years advertisement was limited to newspapers and billboards, however, today there are screens everywhere, billboards, lights and even airplane banners. Adverts are not meant to be hidden and are seen by us in fast moving pictures that often generate unconscious ideas towards doing of preferring something. And example of unconscious thoughts is the one about a song that we can not stop playing in our mind over and over. Currently the level of advertisement is so high that maybe some of our thoughts are generated by adverts. it is fearful to think that maybe in the near future commercial adverts could be wave into our brains during our sleep. In the end advertisement are the most prevalent and toxic of the mental pollutants.