Effect of Florida shows how unions affect people's behavior Bashny.Net

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Effect of Florida, or the effect of the first plan, is that the information obtained by the person most directly affects its behavior, even if he does not realize it.

Psychologists set up an experiment in which participants were asked to make proposals from a variety of words. One group of subjects got randomly chosen words, and the other - the concept, causing the association with old age, such as "bald", "wrinkles", "gray hair", "sclerosis" and others.

Once participants have completed the drafting of the proposals, they were asked to go to another room to continue the experiment. The members of the group, which operated the words, reminiscent of old age, walked down the hall a little slower than those who used neutral concept - half of the volunteers if suddenly "grown old," although none of them did not even pay attention to the fact that the words proposed they are associated with the elderly. A curious phenomenon called the "effect of Florida," because among the residents of the US state of very large percentage of pensioners.

Some scientists say that the results of such experiments is quite controversial, because people's behavior often depends on a number of factors, and we can not say that such a pattern exists.

via factroom.ru