CoopdaDoop

all for knowledge and laughter

[jeisontodd]

THIS NEVER FAILS TO MAKE ME LAUGH

[boneyardchamp]

Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.

Like he will not be happy at all.

[cannon-fannon]

For real though. That experiment. Scary shit.

[hollowedskin]

This reminds me of a discussion that I read once which said Lord of the Flies would have turned out a hell of a lot differently if it was a private school of young girls (who are expected to be responsible and selfless instead), or a public school where the children weren’t all from an inherently entitled, emotionally stunted social class (studies have shown that people in lower socioeconomic classes show more compassion for others). Or that the same premise with children raised in a different culture than the toxic and opressive British Empire and it’s emphasis on social hierarchy and personal wealth and status. And that what we perceive as the unchangable truth deep inside humanity because of things like Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment, is just the base truths about what happens when you remove any accountabilty controlling one social group with an overwhelming sense of entitlement and an inability to feel compassion.

[lady-feral]

I will always reblog this.

[shinykari]

I just wanna say that the Lord of the Flies was explicitly written about high-class private school boys to make this exact point. Golding wrote Lord of the Flies partially to refute an earlier novel about this same subject: The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne. Golding thought it was absolutely absurd that a bunch of privileged little shits would set up some sort of utopia, so his book shows them NOT doing that.

[roscoerackham]

This is also generally true about most psychological experiments.

There’s an experiment called “The Ultimatum Game”. It goes something like this.

Subject A is given an amount of money (Say, $100).

Subject A must offer Subject B some percentage of that money.

If Subject B accepts Subject A’s offer, both get the agreed upon amount of money. If Subject B refuses, no one gets any money.

The most common result was believed to be that people favored 50/50 splits. Anything too low was rejected; people wanted fairness. This was believed to be universal.

And then a researcher went to Peru to do the experiment with members of the indigenous Machiguenga population, and was baffled to find that the results were totally different.

Because, to the Machiguenga, refusing any amount of free money (even an unfair amount) was considered crazy.

So the researcher took his work on the road (to 14 other ‘small scale’ societies and tribes) , and to his shock found the results varied wildly depending on where the test was done. 

In fact, the “universal” result? Was an outlier. 

And that’s the problem. 96% percent of test subjects for psychological research come from 12% of the population. Stuff that we consider to be universal facts of human nature… even things like optical illusions, just… aren’t.

 You can read an article about it here.  But the crux of it is that psychology is plagued with confirmation bias, and people are shaped more by their environment than we realize. 

[olddakinidarce]

THATS WHY CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY EXISTS PEOPLE. Yup.

[z-nogyrop]

reblog if you would let gengar be your friend

[just-shower-thoughts]

Depression is like a background app that drains your battery

[just-shower-thoughts]

Every honey bee you’ve ever seen has never hurt anybody. If it stings you, you’re the first jerk its ever encountered.

[cocaineteas]

[thereallifeprincess]

I’m screaming hjgjcmjddkjfvmnhf

[all-about-psychology]

VISIT –> www.all-about-psychology.com

[coop323]

LADbible

This is so true! 😂😂

[all-about-psychology]

VISIT –> www.all-about-psychology.com/child-psychology.html for quality child psychology information and resources.

[thepsychmind]

Everything Psychology

[coop323]

I am going to yawn at everyone and confuse my slice of the world.

[coop323]

I am obsessed with this song Weak by AJR

[thepsychmind]

Fun Psychology facts here!

[coop323]

Agreed!

[coop323]

Lanier Fishing

Didn't catch anything all day, i got so desperate as to to stick my toe in the water, cmere fishy fishy fishy

[coop323]

[confessionsofabrokegradstudent]

What it feels like trying to get that degree

[ohstarstuff]

This is an incredible look at the spiral galaxy NGC 4217 by the Hubble Space Telescope. Located 60 million light-years away, the galaxy is seen almost perfectly edge on and is a perfect candidate for studying the nature of extraplanar dust structures — the patterns of gas and dust above and below the plane on the galaxy, seen here as brown wisps coming off NGC 4217.

The dozens of dust structures some of which reach as far as 7000 light-years away from the central plane. Typically the structures have a length of about 1000 light-years and are about 400 light-years in width.

Some of the dust filaments are round or irregular clouds, others are vertical columns, looplike structures or vertical cones. These structures can help astronomers to identify the mechanisms responsible for the ejection of gas and dust from the galactic plane of spiral galaxies and reveal information on the transport of the interstellar medium to large distances away from galactic discs. The properties of the observed dust structures in NGC 4217 suggest that the gas and dust was driven out of the midplane of the galaxy by powerful stellar winds resulting from supernovae — explosions that mark the deaths of massive stars.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA. Acknowledgement: R. Schoofs

[shortvideosandstuff]