Experiments With People by Robert P. Abelson Summary
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Dive into 28 groundbreaking social psychology experiments that reveal why we conform, obey, and sometimes abandon our morals. Would you shock someone if ordered? The Stanford Prison Experiment and Milgram's shocking studies expose the uncomfortable truth - ordinary people can do extraordinary harm.
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The Psychology Laboratory: Where Our Everyday Behaviors Come to Life
Have you ever wondered why you feel happier after convincing yourself that rejection was "for the best"? Or why you value something more after working hard to get it? These everyday psychological mysteries are precisely what "Experiments with People" illuminates through fascinating laboratory studies. Just as physicists use controlled experiments to understand the natural world, psychologists use carefully designed scenarios to decode human behavior. The beauty of these experiments lies in their elegant simplicity - they strip away life's complexities to reveal the hidden mechanisms behind our thoughts, feelings, and actions. Through these laboratory windows, we discover that much of what we believe about ourselves is actually an illusion - our memories are malleable, our perceptions are biased, and our choices are heavily influenced by how options are presented to us.
Strangers to Ourselves: The Hidden Forces Behind Our Decisions
The Myth of Memory: How Our Minds Rewrite History
Our Psychological Immune System: Taking the Edge Off Adversity
Believing Is Seeing: How Perception Follows Belief
Framing Effects: How Context Shapes Our Choices
The Power of Dissonance: When Actions Change Attitudes
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