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"Haters gonna hate"
I just read a summary of an article from the "Journal of personality and social psychology." Researchers interviewed 200 randomly selected people to measure their attitudes (positive or negative) about a variety of unrelated subjects (camping, architecture, taxidermy....the idea was for people to give responses to "independent" stimuli.)
Then they showed each person a picture of a microwave oven that did not actually exist, and showed three fictional positive reviews and three fictional negative reviews of this fictional appliance.
People who reacted positively in the first part of the interview tended to react positively to the microwave, and people who reacted negatively to the first questions tended to react negatively to the microwave.
The article concludes, "some people tend to like things, whereas others tend to dislike things."
I read this and immediately thought of SW!
I just read a summary of an article from the "Journal of personality and social psychology." Researchers interviewed 200 randomly selected people to measure their attitudes (positive or negative) about a variety of unrelated subjects (camping, architecture, taxidermy....the idea was for people to give responses to "independent" stimuli.)
Then they showed each person a picture of a microwave oven that did not actually exist, and showed three fictional positive reviews and three fictional negative reviews of this fictional appliance.
People who reacted positively in the first part of the interview tended to react positively to the microwave, and people who reacted negatively to the first questions tended to react negatively to the microwave.
The article concludes, "some people tend to like things, whereas others tend to dislike things."
I read this and immediately thought of SW!
