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psychological researcher placing a marshmallow on a plate: I just have to step out of the room for a bit and then when I come back you can eat this.

me: *nods solemnly*

researcher returning to find two marshmallows on the plate: what the fuck

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.

yourstrulys

Rather be tied up with cuffs and not strings, write my own checks like I write what I sing

#the best bad bitch right here

homet0wn

Are you in love?

No I’m in bed

gayaiolia-deactivated20171016

its hard for me to even believe that there’s a legit fandom for Its Always Sunny because the show doesn’t even feel like a real show to me half the time? honestly it feels more like something you can only witness at certain times of the day, usually between the hours of 1 am and 4 am, and in a room like this

ubercharge

this blog is pro turn signal

heyhosers

vines y’all have been sleeping on aka vines i haven’t seen in comps but still make me happy

metamorphosisofmeg

how to stop yourself from feeling hungry

get some nice food to munch on

have a snack

cook yourself something yum

nourish your body

make a nice sandwich

maybe have some cereal

go and get ice cream

visit a cute cafe for tea and cake

EAT SOME FOOD

theycantalk

stay calm

reblogifyouricon

Reblog if your icon

Is precious

noneotherthanthejoker-deactivat

Finally some good news:

taylortut

was he told this by someone or did he just assume the authority to decide that grandmaster lived

angstalottle

Would you correct him?

frost-masters

Fun Fact: grandmaster is one of the cosmic elders and is banned from dying by death herself

He has super strength, speed, and can survive in the vacuum of space indefinitely

(this is all on his wiki btw)

frost-masters

A bonus

corsolanite

#mood mood moooooood

0dmg-archive

crimepit-deactivated20200606

breakingbag-blog

do u ever associate someone with their icon so much that you just assume that they’re the same gender as their icon or something and then they post a selfie and ur like wait you’re not thomas the tank engine

#i am infact marinette its ok