Free video about social experiment. This free video was created for you by http://epsos.de and can be used for free under the creative commons license with the attribution of epSos.de as the original author of this social experiment video. Thank you for supporting the creative commons movement !! A social experiment is an experiment with human subjects in order to study their reactions in a given context. These studies provide insight into human nature, thought processes, but also cultural differences. One of the most remarkable experiments in social psychology was the Milgram experiment. This experiment sought to assess the degree of an individual's obedience to an authority that it considers legitimate and analyze the process of submission to authority, especially when it leads to actions that pose problems of conscience about. After the events of the Holocaust during the Second World War, experience has shown that (most) normal American citizens were capable of following orders from an authority even when they believed they were causing suffering an innocent person. The Asch experiment demonstrates the power of conformity decisions of an individual within a group based on an estimate of the length of the line. In more than one third of trials, participants conformed to the majority, even if the majority judgment was clearly erroneous. Sixty-five percent of participants have complied at least once during the experiment. The experience of the "cave of thieves" of Muzafer Sherif twenty-two boys eleven were split into two groups in order to better understand the conflicts and tensions between groups and the phenomenon of cooperation or integration between two groups previously in conflict. The explanation of the results of Sherif is known as the theory of realistic group conflict because conflicts come groups were induced by competition for resources. These effects were reduced when a state of interdependence was induced. In the experience of cognitive dissonance Leon Festinger, participants were asked to perform a boring task. They were divided into two groups and given two different pay scales. At the end of the study, some participants were paid $ 1 to say they enjoyed the task and another group of participants was paid $ 20 to tell the same lie. Later, the participants of the first group ( $ 1 ) reported better apprcécier the task that the second group ( $ 20 ). Festinger explained this behavior by the difference in reward: $ 1 is not a sufficient incentive for lying, they have been a victim of cognitive dissonance. The only way to justify this dissonnace was to justify their lies by changing their previously unfavorable preference to the task. Be paid $ 20 provides a sufficient reason to perform a boring task, so the participants of the second group were not a victim of dissonance. Often has the added gift of hidden meaning, understandable for both the giver and to bestow. This is due to the meaning of personal relationships of people, as well as gift giving way or the case in which a gift was presented. Sometimes a gift imposes certain obligations on the one who presented requires reciprocal gift after some time. At the moment, the concept of "gift" strongly commercialized. There is a whole industry production and sales of gifts for different occasions, many companies use the gifts in their marketing purposes (organize competitions among consumers with the distribution of gifts to the winners, spread in different ways for free samples of their products or items with attributes of the company). On Russia gifts always loved able to find hidden meaning in them and happy news. In many fairy tales states donated knife, which manifests blood if its owner got into trouble overseas. Or about how the donation by the groom finds his bride. Also no accident that the tales most wonderful items hero finds and gets a gift, be it a ball, pointing the way or ring, wish-fulfilling. In the times of the Soviet Union there was a commonplace phrase, promoted by the media - " The book is the best gift. " The gratuity is, in economics, a concept that covers the fact that a good or services can be obtained without any consideration, especially monetary, has to be provided. In economics, the concept of gratuity is used in an ambiguous way: as a synonym for free ( value zero), philanthropy, altruism, volunteering, etc.. Thank you for supporting the creative commons movement !!

• published: 29 Mar 2014
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