Ray, I will blame a company that takes advantage of these techniques to sell an inherently dangerous product to children. As far as I'm concerned adults should know better.
I also did not say that peer pressure is something we cannot help. What I'm saying is that we need to be aware of these factors when making judgements. Adults usually know how to do this, most of the time kids do not. larry > -----Original Message----- > From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 10:44 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: The Anti Terrorism Act.. > > > Ok, but if peer pressure is something that is "hardwired", then you > can't blame a company for it. Shoot, aren't we hard fired to > like food? > Doesn't Burger King play on that when they advertise their > wares? Isn't > their food horribly unhealthy? Maybe not as bad as cigs... > but my point > is, if peer pressure is something we can't help, why blame the cig > companies for it? > > -RC > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 10:29 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: RE: The Anti Terrorism Act.. > > > > > > Working with teens in the past, I cannot discount peer > > pressure. Hey it can even affect your perception. A very old > > study (by Asher) had a group of people in a dark room looking > > at a pinpoint of light. Normally it would move in a > > relatively random pattern, due to eye movement. The study > > went like this, there was one actual subject and several > > confederates. They were to report verbally how the point of > > light moved. When the confederates reported the light moving > > in a certain ways, almost all the subjects reported the point > > of light moving in a similar pattern. In the control > > condition, where there was no collusion, the subjects > > reported the light moving in a random pattern. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
