On Monday, February 22, 2016 at 6:08:40 PM UTC+1, Johan S. R. Nielsen wrote: > > Oh man, not *that* discussion again...
It could be a psychological tactic, where he tries to influence our entire social group. See: Weaver, K., Garcia, S. M., Schwarz, N., & Miller, D. T. (2007). Inferring the popularity of an opinion from its familiarity: a repetitive voice can sound like a chorus. *Journal of personality and social psychology*, *92*(5), 821. quote from the abstract: """One important mechanism underlying such misjudgments is people’s tendency to infer that a familiar opinion is a prevalent one, even when its familiarity derives solely from the repeated expression of 1 group member. Six experiments demonstrate this effect and show that it holds even when perceivers are consciously aware that the opinions come from 1 speaker.""" https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-925821.pdf -- harald -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
