SNEAKO - August 01, 2022This Experiment Shows BOT Mentality
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Summary
The Brain Games Conformity Waiting Room is a short film about social conformity and how to deal with it. In this episode, a woman is stuck in a crowded waiting room, and everyone else in the room is working for her. What would you do if you were stuck in the same situation?
Transcript
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It's called Brain Games Conformity Waiting Room, sent by Luke.
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These people may appear to be waiting for the eye doctor,
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but they're actually waiting for the first test subject in our hidden camera experiment.
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And here she is, right on time for her 12 o'clock appointment.
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This woman thinks she's here for a free eye exam.
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What she doesn't know is that everyone else in this room is working for us.
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Today we're running an experiment on social control.
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It doesn't take long for our test subject to notice a pattern.
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And if you were in her shoes, what would you do the next time the tone sounds?
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While you might think you make your decisions all on your own.
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When it comes to peer pressure, all too often, your brain is just following the crowd.
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An invisible force you're probably not even aware of.
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It affects what you do, how you think, and who you are.
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It's called social conformity or peer pressure.
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And while it might not sound like a good thing, it's actually not so bad.
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The truth is, your brain craves synchronicity and takes comfort in the ease and efficiency
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And whether it's simply knowing what to wear in the morning, supporting your team at the
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big game, or even marching off to war, we're all programmed to be part of the group.
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And that's because your brain knows that there's power.
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Like, my advice is if you're doing the same shit that everybody else is doing, if you're
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echoing the opinions that everybody else is echoing, maybe you didn't come up with
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Maybe you should be a free thinker to some extent, because all of you are just saying,
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Black, white matter, take this thing, I'm doing it right.
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Like, if everyone believes in it, it's probably wrong.
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If a bunch of bots believe in your shit, it's probably wrong.
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If the rich people aren't doing it, it's probably right.
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We set up a hidden camera experiment to see if this woman.
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Would stand up at the sound of this tone, simply because everyone else is.
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You might be thinking you'd never go along with this.
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I've always been that guy that just wants to do exactly the opposite of what everyone
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else is doing, just because I'll always try hard.
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After just three beeps, and without knowing why she's doing it, this woman is now conforming
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She's still going to do it after they leave, right?
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What's the correlation between Asians and still wearing double masks?
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Is it just the lack of wanting to be an independent thinker?
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But is it, I don't know, I've been thinking about it a lot since the pandemic.
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Like, why is it that Asians are still everywhere they go?
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Not only are they, are Asians less free-thinking, but also succumb to peer pressure, like, way
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She's now conforming to the rules of the group without them even being there.
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Now, watch what happens when we introduce another outsider who doesn't know the rules.
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Have a seat, and they'll be out in just a couple minutes.
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She's going to echo the conformity, and he's going to do it, too.
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Is she going to tell him, oh, you have to stand up.
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Bro, how long is she waiting for her appointment, bro?
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Everybody was doing it, so I thought I was supposed to.
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We kept the cameras rolling as more unsuspecting patients arrived.
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That looks stupider, because you can't breathe.
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has now become the social norm for everyone in this way.
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It's exactly why you believe in this shit you believe.
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It's exactly why you posted a black square on Instagram.
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Here to explain what's going on in their brains
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is Jonah Berger of the University of Pennsylvania.
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when we see members of our group perform a task,
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our brains literally reward us for following in their footsteps.
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I like following orders, because I don't like thinking for myself.
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When I saw everybody stand up, I felt like I needed to...
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who wasn't standing for any of this nonsense...
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Like, he looked at the regret on his face, too.
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He thinks it's stupid, but you don't want to be...
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Nobody wants the pressure being looked at by everybody else.
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That's why it was so easy for everyone to get this.
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And then everyone else was like, well, my mom told me to do it.
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than seeing how easily conformity affects the way you act...
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...is that similar forces are subconsciously shaping