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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, December 8, 2009

How Other Peoples Expectations Control Us - Chapter 16

Before i even read this article, i thought about it for a second, and you know, just the title of this has allot of meaning behind it. It states a really strong fact. We do this everyday! Like, if we didn't have parents to impress, would we really go to bed at a certain time? Do the things they tell us to do? Or live up to their standards? Maybe some people, but not all people. Even when you look at another person in your class and you see how much they sauced, that makes you want to try harder. But if they didn't set that standard in the first place, would you still try to do that good? Hm...

They ran a test out of the University of Minnesota to test whether this is true or not. The only reason that they tested this is because they had a hunch that people can automatically tell when people are judging them or the way another person is viewing them and start to make changes so they are showing the behavior that the person watching them is expecting.

In the study that they did, they did a series of testing that tested certain things; for example -
  • They did one called, Feeling the Attraction, and this tested to see whether people judge each other on appearance and first impressions.
  • Another one that they did was titled: Changing other peoples Behaviours' and this one just tested to see if the other persons expectations influence us.

This was a pretty interesting article. It relates allot to our everyday life in many ways. Every one is worried about what other people think of them, even if they don't want to. Allot of the time, people worry about looking better than others, acting more mature and being cool and fitting in. So everybody goes through a phase where they are constantly worrying about what people think.

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  1. CassandraDecember 8, 2009 at 3:59 PM

    Like many other people in the world, I try to fit in. When walking into a room or a building, I unconsiously check to see what people are doing and what they are wearing. If I am not wearing something similar I feel like I stick out more than other people. When getting dressed in the morning instead of choosing something that is trashy, I choose something that will make me fit in.

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  2. BethanyJVDDecember 8, 2009 at 10:01 PM

    I read this article and also found it to be quite relavant. Every time when we meet someone new, we adjust the way we communicate with them in a way we think they are like. Well, we are all high school students, so I think we are all going through the phase of fitting in and trying to be like everyone else too.

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