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

From: Steve Drew (srdrew_1@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 21:28:17 GMT

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    Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:59:44 -0000
    >From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
    Subject: RE: Words and memes: criteria for acceptance of new belief or
    meme

        <Yes, but it *was* Stanley Millgram who did the experiments, there
    are
    > numerous variations.>
    >
        Yep. Zimbardo's famous for that 'prison' role-playing experiment
    where those students got carried away. Millgram's famous six degrees of
    separation experiment is being redone over the net, although I forget the
    website address, apparently you can sign up to join in with the updated
    version of that study.

        The 6 degrees idea, would seem to be a potentially useful tool for
    the spreading of memes if ti's correct.

        Vincent<

    Hi Vincent.

    I don't know if you are aware, but one of the UK tv channels has repeated
    Zimbardo's prison expt, and it is in the cans, with a release date for later
    in the year. they have leaked a few details to suggest that their results
    were different from Zimbardo's. Until i get the full sp on their initial
    conditions etc, i shall wait and see.

    Regards

    Steve

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