Some interesting social science happening in the Aldi parking lot today - one person’s laziness set off a completely unreasonable chain reaction. I saw two people add to it while I was standing there, with zero shame. What a weird study in human behavior. Might need to redo the shopping cart theory experiments. #sociology #humanbehavior

“Hold on, let me show you what you’re doing wrong.” What is it about know-it-alls that makes them think they know everything? There are several quirks of human psychology that help explain this behavior, and @sciencefocus takes aim at one: naïve realism. Read more: https://flip.it/YrCasu
#Science #Psychology #Brain #Human #HumanBehavior

For years, humans have relished opportunities to kick, punch, trip, crush, and run over anything remotely resembling a robot. Sometimes it’s funny, but this penchant for machine violence could become potentially concerning as a new wave of humanoid robots is being built to work alongside people in manufacturing facilities. @PopularScience examines the history of people bullying robots. https://flip.it/kH1rAP
#Science #Robots #Technology #ComputerScience #HumanBehavior #Violence #Psychology

“Well, happy birthday! You got the tab, right?” Even etiquette experts are split on who pays for a birthday dinner. The host? Guest of honor? Guests? Pop Sugar tries to settle the debate. "Awkward as these situations can be, they can usually be clarified — and upset feelings avoided — with good pre-party communication and planning,” says Mr. Manners himself, Thomas P. Farley. Read the full story, then tell us what you think in the comments: https://flip.it/bu5txa
#Culture #Birthdays #Parties #BirthdayParties #Etiquette #Human #HumanBehavior

People game AIs via game theory - Enlarge / In the experiments, people had to judge what constituted a fa... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2042327 #behavioralscience #computerscience #humanbehavior #aitraining #science #ai

#Pakistan's 4 wild #parakeet species have suffered precipitous #PopulationDecline in recent decades, with their current numbers a mere fragment of what they used to be, #wildlife expert Anis Rehman tells #Anadolu.

#HumanBehavior is mostly to blame for their decline into locally #endangered status, as local communities and others have engaged in #poaching and #trafficking of the prized #birds, while also cutting down the old hollow trees where they nest.

The solution lies in a 'strict' #ban on the poaching and smuggling of parakeets until their population recovers, according to Rab Nawaz of World Wide Fund for #Nature #WWF Pakistan, who said that if these are contained, parakeet populations could recover in 'a few years'.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/deforestation-poaching-leave-pakistans-wild-parakeets-on-the-brink/3298875#

Astronauts find their tastes dulled, and a VR ISS hints at why - Enlarge / The environment you're eating in can influence what you taste... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2039520 #internationalspacestation #spaceexploration #humanbehavior #science #taste #food

Non-rational judgments, being the product of suggestion, will have the quality of instinctive opinion, or, as we may call it, of belief in the strict sense.

The essence of this quality is obviousness; the truth held in
this way is one of James’s “a priori syntheses of the most perfect sort”; to question it is to the believer to carry scepticism to an insane degree, and will be met by contempt, disapproval, or condemnation, according to the nature of the belief in question.

When, therefore, we find ourselves entertaining an opinion about the basis of which there is a quality of feeling which tells us that to inquire into it would be absurd, obviously unnecessary, unprofitable, undesirable, bad form, or wicked, we may know that that opinion is a non-rational one, and probably, therefore, founded upon inadequate evidence.
– Wilfred Trotter, "Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War" (1915)

It wasn't that long ago when everyone just knew that "the earth is flat" and on the matter "the science is settled."

We should always be willing to confront our thoughts and opinions.

#Psychology #HumanBehavior #science

Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women - Enlarge (credit: Alistair Berg)

Misinformation is not a new pr... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2027838 #misinformation #humanbehavior #socialmedia #science #twitter