Elevator Groupthink: An Ingenious 1962 Psychology Experiment In Conformity.
What vintage Candid Camera can teach us about the cultural role of the global Occupy movement.The psychology of conformity is something we’ve previously explored, but its stu…
Elevator Groupthink: An Ingenious 1962 Psychology Experiment In Conformity.
What vintage Candid Camera can teach us about the cultural role of the global Occupy movement.The psychology of conformity is something we’ve previously explored, but its study dates back to the 1950s, when Gestalt scholar and social psychology pioneer Solomon Asch, known today as the Asch conformity experiments. Among them is this famous elevator experiment, originally conducted as a part of a 1962 Candid Camera episode titled “Face the Rear.”
By Maria Popova
https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/01/13/asch-elevator-experiment
Human Experimentation (22 Videos)
Playlist by Mark R. Elsis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbJOF-2UZFg&list=PL9SLRU38-i-ZiW8lTSKOKRx6xGOeBpVyC
Somehow Succeed
Are we scared
Because we don't know
Are we paired
So conflict will grow
Are we bred
To learn to conform
Are we led
To kill and mourn
Will life cease
Because of greed
Or will peace
Somehow succeed
It's up to you
It's up to me
To change ourselves
To somehow see
by Mark R. Elsis
July 8, 1981
Somehow Succeed inspired Michael Jackson to create Beat It.
The single Beat It, along with its music video, propelled Thriller into becoming the best-selling album of all time. The happenstance of Michael Jackson and I meeting that night in AM-PM, created a miracle to make the world a better place. This brings a smile to my face and joy to my heart, every day of my life.
The Genesis of Beat It
by Mark R. Elsis
https://MichaelJackson.net
Confined To Conformity
Confined to conformity
Stuck in your ways
Living so uniformly
Trapped in your maze
by Mark R. Elsis
March 19, 1980
