Originally Posted By: climberslacker
Originally Posted By: Jeff_McCann
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There is an effect called pressure against judgment. This is where stimuli accumulate in such a way that their combined effect causes you to act against your baseline good judgment.

See any group of adolescent males for examples.

Jeff


HEY!!

actually, I understand this phenomena, i actually saw it at my school sometime last year, there are diving blocks at the pool used by swimmers, and we were jumping off of them having a good time, then someone went up and the rest started chanting "BELLY FLOP! BELLY FLOP! BELLY FLOP!" and then they did, against their better jugement.


Oh, I can do MUCH better (worse) than that! It's a wonder I survived my adolescence at all.

Jeff
[King of stupid stunts]