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It describes the psychological phenomenon where people improve their social behavior simply because they know they are being observed, for example washing their hands.
If I had to guess I’d say they observed exactly this. But they don’t mention it.
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Does this mean religion can be good for the third of the population that needs an imaginary character to be good?
of course. this experiment is not novel. in the courts witness would swear on the bible (not sure now). Heard this from an Indian friend, and not sure how much of this true - Indian cities used to have problem of folks chewing tobacco and spitting everywhere, so in some places they would have an icon of a Hindu god, and it worked (maybe not with non-hindu).
Probably worked with non-hindu as well; after all, people don't usually spit on or in front of religious idols even if those idols are from a different religion.
About 8 percent of the people that were going to give their seat anyway, happened to see batman, the rest were too busy offering their seat.
The article mentions (in a "further research" kind of way) some of the obvious reasons that superhero associations specifically might elicit this response, when other pattern-disrupting surprises might not. But there's also this: > If unexpected yet non-threatening events Culturally, in some cities, some people would wonder whether the person in the Batman costume is mentally ill and a threat (how much, varying partl…
I didn’t find any mentioned of the well studied Hawthorne effect known since the 1920s or so. It describes the psychological phenomenon where people improve their social behavior simply because they know they are being observed, for example washing their hands. If I had to guess I’d say they observed exactly this. But they don’t mention it. Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
The article mentions (in a "further research" kind of way) some of the obvious reasons that superhero associations specifically might elicit this response, when other pattern-disrupting surprises might not. But there's also this: > If unexpected yet non-threatening events Culturally, in some cities, some people would wonder whether the person in the Batman costume is mentally ill and a threat (how much, varying partl…
Who sees someone cosplaying and thinks "well that person is clearly mentally ill and a danger"?
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Who sees someone cosplaying and thinks "well that person is clearly mentally ill and a danger"?
I don't. I think some people will, depending (as I said) on the acting. The research is about how people behave.
Maybe it's a lack of imagination on my part but other than some people sneering at "nerds doing nerd shit" this doesn't hold at all for me.