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

From: Keith Henson (hkhenson@cogeco.ca)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 16:00:06 GMT

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    At 12:13 AM 19/02/02 -0500, frankie wrote:
    >>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.
    >
    >As a mother of two sons who couldn't be more different (one is very
    >compliant, the other is......not). I think that it is probably an
    >inborn trait. I'd be interested to read his research.

    http://www.zimbardo.com/publications.htm

    Keith

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