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Hey everbody.. My name is Katie, i'm a senior at Edgar High and i am 17 yrs old. I only have one brother, and i can't even consider him a brother. I don't have any pets, but i do have the neighbors dog! I believe that the fact that i am adopted has shaped my life. If i wasn't adopted by my parents, i wouldn't be who i am today. I thank my parents for that. My mom is always there for me when i need her, sure she can be a mom, but she is always there as a friend too. Me and my parents are very close, and i think that is the way it will always stay. To me psycology is important because it is all over the place! It is one of those things that you will never be able to run away from. So everybody just has to lean back and accept it. The definition of psycology to me would have to be... The reasons why things happen and how they happen. The reasons we make the choices we do, why people are depressed, why some people are hyper, and why we act the way we act on a daily basis.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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The Chameleon Effect - PsyBlog

I read this article on psyblog about how if you mimic what another person does, it can rub off on you and make you act a certain way. Before i get into the article, i used to think that like, if you moved to Texas for a while, and you were around people with accents, that if you moved back up to WI after living in TX for a while, you wuold come back and you would have like a southern accent. Anyway, back to the article:

These 2 guys always wanted to know if when you mimic someone, it rubs off on you, and nobody ever really knew the truth untill these two guys decided to try it, these are the steps that they tried.

  1. Do people automatically mimic others, even strangers?
  2. Does mimicry increase liking?
  3. Do high-perspective-takers exhibit the chameleon effect more?
They did a long series of testing and did a whole bunch of experiments, and came out with these results:

We do copy what people do, but not to the extent that you would think, its not like we stare at someone and look at how they walk and copy it, we do it on an unconcious level. And it makes other people want to be like you if they like the way that you do something. Something really bad can happen too if you mimic a person to much. Its like you get hypnotised by what they do and it can be really bad. Its like an extreme case of mimicing. They do all of the same things insync.

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