Hacking Your Mind

[Ecurb Noselrub]

Watched a bit of Hacking Your Mind, a PBS special.  News Flash: we all influence each other.  They talked about a study where people were asked to decide about something and were given a statement like "this will make you healthier" or something like that. The statement that most influenced people's decisions was basically "most of your neighbors are doing this."  Logic does not drive most of our decisions.  Keeping up with the Joneses does.  So - who are your Joneses?  They are hacking your mind. 

Look at my watch.  You are getting sleepy now ......

[xSilverPhinx]

Watched a bit of Hacking Your Mind, a PBS special.  News Flash: we all influence each other.  They talked about a study where people were asked to decide about something and were given a statement like "this will make you healthier" or something like that. The statement that most influenced people's decisions was basically "most of your neighbors are doing this."  Logic does not drive most of our decisions.  Keeping up with the Joneses does.  So - who are your Joneses?  They are hacking your mind. 

Look at my watch.  You are getting sleepy now ......

That sounds like a cool program, I'm going to try and find an available link. 

[Ecurb Noselrub]

Here you go:

https://www.pbs.org/show/hacking-your-mind/

[Dark Lightning]

Here you go:

https://www.pbs.org/show/hacking-your-mind/

Think I'll do some jaywalking before it's too late! I wonder what being on the "blacklist" means?

[xSilverPhinx]

Here you go:

https://www.pbs.org/show/hacking-your-mind/

Not available in my country. 

I could probably access that link if I use a VPN...