Do you remember the classic experiments done by Olds that demonstrated that
rats will cross an electrified grid to press a bar in order to get a
pleasurable stimulation to their brains because it felt so good?
As the only divergent thinker on Tips,I am beginning to speculate that those
shoppers
Embedded within his post is a pretty reasonable question that might come up
in class: how is the Wal-Mart trampling similar and different from the
classic Latane and Darley studies of bystander apathy.
The incident appears to me to be a rather direct example of their one study
in which they chang
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From: Paul C Bernhardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 9:52 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] James Olds/ESB/Wal Mart
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On 1 Dec 2008 at 10:55, Helweg-Larsen, Marie wrote:
> From the NY Times description about the Walmart trampling it doesn´t
> seem to fit well the traditional bystander intervention research.
> But the Walmart case appears to be one of lack of crowd control. There
> were thousands of people pus
