So, I've read a fair amount of the literature about group dynamics and social influence, and taught classes that discussed and used it. So I thought I'd know much of what was in this book already. While I was familiar with some of it, there were a...
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Ed Smiley
>I read recently that if you trace the locations (by location-aware cell phones) of a small population in an American city over a 6-month period, on average, the movement collapses into standard predator patterns.
Gee, Rachel, I hope that has nothing to do with any vampire books you are reading. :)
Another great book on how the self-model that people make of themselves is false, is the User Illusion, one of the main ideas is that you "choose" to act, and then your conscious mind "feels" that you made the choice at the moment of action, and supplies rationales for doing so, simple example is that you believe that you saw the car in front of you stop and you applied the brakes in immediate response, when in fact you started to react more than a second previously without awareness.
Gee, Rachel, I hope that has nothing to do with any vampire books you are reading. :)
Another great book on how the self-model that people make of themselves is false, is the User Illusion, one of the main ideas is that you "choose" to act, and then your conscious mind "feels" that you made the choice at the moment of action, and supplies rationales for doing so, simple example is that you believe that you saw the car in front of you stop and you applied the brakes in immediate response, when in fact you started to react more than a second previously without awareness.
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