RE: Words and memes: criteria for acceptance of new belief or meme

From: Francesca S. Alcorn (unicorn@greenepa.net)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 17:09:56 GMT

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Keith said:

>There are papers by Zimbardo from Stanford (now president of the
>American Psychological Association) that are directly on this topic.
>It looks like the mechanism is more one of resistance to social
>pressure than learned. I am trying to remember the name associated
>with that test of resistance to social pressure where most of the
>group acts a shills and one person is given the choice of going
>against the group which insists the longer line on a slide is
>shorter or the other way around.

Millgram? It wasn't a long queue or a short queue, but numbers of
dots on paper IIRC, and administering electric shocks.

frankie

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