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[ACE2013] Social Sciences Make a Difference

[ACE2013] Social Sciences Make a Difference

Zsolt Fabok

April 15, 2013
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  1. Social Sciences Make a Difference
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    by
    Zsolt Fabok
    2013-04-15
    The good thing about science is that
    it's true whether or not you believe in it
    @aceconf
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  3. The 3 symptoms of laziness
    According to a lazy person:
    1.

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  4. According to the Oxford dictionary:
    1. Unwilling to work or use energy
    2. Characterized by lack of effort or activity
    3. Showing a lack of effort or care
    (Not to be confused with the work aversion
    disorder. Source: wikipedia)
    The 3 symptoms of laziness

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  5. by
    Prof. Dr. Martin Seligman (1967)
    The dog experiment
    image: http://bit.ly/14axX5J

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  6. Learned helplessness
    Is a technical term that refers to the condition of
    a human or animal that has learned to behave
    helplessly, failing to respond even though there
    are opportunities for it to help itself by avoiding
    unpleasant circumstances or by gaining positive
    rewards.

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  7. by
    Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson (1968)
    The class room experiment
    image: http://bit.ly/12IiNzR

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  8. Pygmalion Effect
    People will perform to the level of
    expectations you set for them.

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  9. image: http://bit.ly/ZgyGL4

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  10. by
    Elton Mayo (1927)
    The Hawthorne experiments
    image: http://bit.ly/PEucyR

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  11. Hawthorne Effect
    The phenomenon in which subjects in
    behavioral studies change their performance
    in response to being observed.

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  12. by
    Lee Ross, David Green, Pamela House (1977)
    The False-consensus Effect
    image: http://bit.ly/9n66nj

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  13. False-consensus Effect
    There is a tendency for people to assume that
    their own opinions, beliefs, preferences, values
    and habits are 'normal' and that others also think
    the same way that they do. This tends to lead to
    the perception of a consensus that does not exist,
    a 'false consensus'.

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  14. by
    Edmund Gettier (1963)
    The Gettier Problem
    (campus clock version)
    The Gettier Problem is a philosophical thought experiment that
    has nothing to do with social sciences, yet it is important image: http://bit.ly/MG8Kbn

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  15. Gettier Problems
    The problems are actual or possible situations in
    which someone has a belief that is both true and
    well supported by evidence, yet which — according
    to almost all epistemologists — fails to be
    knowledge.

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  16. Thank you very much for your attention!
    http://zsoltfabok.com/ @ZsoltFabok

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  17. Seligman, M.E.P., Maier, S.F., and Geer, J. (1968). The alleviation of
    learned helplessness in dogs. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 73,
    256-262.
    Rosenthal, R., and Jacobson, L. (1968). Pygmalion in the classroom:
    Teacher expectation and pupils' intellectual development'. New
    York: Rinehart and Winston. ISBN: 1904424066
    Elton Mayo (1933). The Human Problems of an Industrialized
    Civilization. ISBN: 0415604230
    Ross, L (1977). The false consensus effect: An egocentric bias in
    social perception and attribution processes. Journal of
    Experimental Social Psychology 13. ISSN 00221031.
    Gettier problem: http://www.ditext.com/gettier/gettier.html,
    http://www.iep.utm.edu/epistemo/
    Sources:

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