Amplify Amplify your take on things.  Join Ken on Amplify

Ken | My Amplog
« Amplog Home   Posts tagged: behavior
  • Name: Ken
  • Location: USA, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Indonesia
  • Twitter:
  • Bio: Scientist working @ the intersection of international development and the environment primarily in climate change adaptation.
901887

Ken's Recent Activity

commented on altaCITIES's clip
SET | Vaccine study finds no mercury-autism link
recommended altaCITIES's clip
SET | Vaccine study finds no mercury-autism link
commented on Eric Goldstein's clip
Think people are fed up with Washington? You're right!
recommended Maria Silveira's clip
How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room
commented on Daniel Durrant's clip
Boy helps solve the Dirty Bag Crisis

Categories

The Subtle Transmission of Race Bias via Televised Nonverbal Behavior

More on the transmission of racial bias via television.

Amplify’d from www.sciencemag.org
Compared with more explicit racial slurs and statements, biased facial expressions and body language may resist conscious identification and thus produce a hidden social influence. In four studies, we show that race biases can be subtly transmitted via televised nonverbal behavior. Characters on 11 popular television shows exhibited more negative nonverbal behavior toward black than toward status-matched white characters. Critically, exposure to prowhite (versus problack) nonverbal bias increased viewers’ bias even though patterns of nonverbal behavior could not be consciously reported. These findings suggest that hidden patterns of televised nonverbal behavior influence bias among viewers.

Read more at www.sciencemag.org
 

Indirect Punishment and Generosity Toward Strangers

More explorations of reward and punishment and behavior modification.

Amplify’d from www.sciencemag.org
Many people incur costs to reward strangers who have been kind to others. Theoretical and experimental evidence suggests that such “indirect rewarding” sustains cooperation between unrelated humans. Its emergence is surprising, because rewarders incur costs but receive no immediate benefits. It can prevail in the long run only if rewarders earn higher payoffs than “defectors” who ignore strangers’ kindness. We provide experimental evidence regarding the payoffs received by individuals who employ these and other strategies, such as “indirect punishment,” by imposing costs on unkind strangers. We find that if unkind strangers cannot be punished, defection earns most. If they can be punished, however, then indirect rewarding earns most. Indirect punishment plays this important role, even if it gives a low payoff and is rarely implemented.

Read more at www.sciencemag.org