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Blue Eyes / Brown Eyes

By Trond | April 7, 2008

I’ve been sitting in on Robert Kraut‘s online communities course. He’s a visiting lecturer from CMU with a background in social psychology, and consequently, the course is heavy on theory and empirical studies. In it, he discusses how theories of social psychology can help us understand and build online communities. So far, we’ve covered community… Read More »

Experiment (Dooling & Lachmann, 1971)

By Trond | April 7, 2008

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Try this experiment. Read the following passage, once only. Then, click through and read the rest of this post. With hocked gems financing him, our hero bravely defied all scornful laughter that tried to prevent his scheme. “Your eyes deceive,” he had said. “An egg, not a table, correctly typifies this unexplored planet.” Now three… Read More »