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| God, not again! |
There are many types of fashions, and each season is almost feared that new trends of fashion gurus seeking to impose (I continue to "bless" the fact that this revival has not yet given them to revive the corset ...) but there is another kind of fashion trends or patterns that seem to expand by society as an epidemic and reflect patterns of behavior to some extent unconscious.
For example, is not it interesting that in certain groups of friends @ s pregnancy spread like a shock wave? although no one has investigated this phenomenon (as far as I know) so if you've published for years and is a study reconstructing the social network where people with cardiovascular problems in people (such as People Facebook health problems can be linked to obesity in Framingham) could see how the probability of a person developing obesity increased by 30% and up almost 60% depending on the degree of familiarity with the person initially obese (say, if it were a viral epidemic, this person would be "the source") but interestingly were the friends who appeared to have the greatest negative influence over herman @ s and / or couples.
not to you but when I read this it gave me goosebumps, it is true that the people around us influence our habits and we've all heard, especially in our youth, that they must look with whom you go because bad companies you'll end up taking the wrong road. So where is the free will (of its existence or not, the definition that this can be talk another day)?, is not part of our humanity to be able to make rational decisions (to some extent) regardless of what others are doing? Apparently not, as presented in an article researchers at a university in Colorado and also deluded us, ensuring a priori that our decisions will not be influenced by others and yet this was what they found: making the case scenario participants in the study receiving holiday photos of a friend with (very) overweight and then someone offered them biscuits would it change the fact the number of cookies that would eat? Before the event hypothetical most said they would eat less cookies and 31% would not eat nor ....¿ reality? in different trials where participants were shown a model "to avoid" an image control (like a lamp) or a person of normal weight, in cases where they are exposed to the model with overweight participants typically take 2 times biscuits than those who saw an image control. According to the study authors conclude: "When we are exposed to a negative stereotype is easier to resort to a stereotyped behavior in the same direction, in this case would the monk habit and therefore the whole congregation.
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| If you can not beat the enemy, join us! Seize the influence of stereotypes in our favor |
However I would say there is hope, because if it is true that we can acquire a stereotyped behavior of our social environment, this need not necessarily be negative. An overweight person who decides to start eating a more healthy may have a new stereotype to imitate (unconsciously) is more if we draw on a study 2000 where a group of psychologists from Northwestern University showed that people defined their portions (the size of the sandwich, or the number of chocolates ..) compared to those around them. So to begin a behavior change in society is enough to sow the right seeds, though I wonder if, as in so many things there will be no threshold at which the effect of the stereotype is significant at the population level, ie if a net office of 15 people, there are 7 Overweight what is the minimum number of people who must change their attitudes to create change in the group?
I read in The Frontal Cortex and adapted to my point of view.
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