The phrase
"social experiment" refers to a planned activity or study that aims to observe and understand how people behave or react in certain situations in order to learn more about society and human behavior.
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Or you can read about the actual
social experiments on participation in things like torture (There's a movie on it called «The wave»).
Once you get to the point where you start
running social experiments (Step 4), you'll need to be willing to take a step back from the keyboard.
The jury is out; maybe in two years we will know for sure, but to me it seems that encouraging home ownership has been a
disastrous social experiment.
When the servers hear the message of faith - based reform, they imagine a
bold social experiment to be measured by its objective outcomes.
The researchers conducted
extensive social experiments and analyzed the data from other studies to determine the percentage of reciprocal friendships and their impact on human behavior.
Through public performance,
creative social experiments and interventions, their practice explores and exposes the effect of existing socio - political systems and institutional mechanisms.
Those children, the ones who are not lucky enough to be the «healthiest graduates» in your
interesting social experiment, will never get a do - over.
This went on for more than a decade until the 21st Amendment was passed in 1933 to repeal the 18th Amendment and end the
disastrous social experiment.
When Lyft first launched, recalls the company's director of marketing strategy & operations Gina Ma, «it felt like really asking people to participate in this really big sort
of social experiment almost — the idea of doing these things that your mom always told you not to do.»
Terrible online dating profiles - Comedian creates worst online dating profile ever
as social experiment.
Greg McLean's The Belko Experiment, written by Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn (also writer of Dawn of the Dead and director of SLiTHER), is clearly inspired by the 2000 Japanese adaptation; it takes place during a
twisted social experiment in which a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high - rise corporate office in Bogata, Colombia and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.
We have rules at our dinner table restricting cell phone and other electronic use, as quality time over family meals is associated with important developmental outcomes for children, such as school readiness and well - being.4 So, after careful deliberation, The Consultant and I finally decided to conduct our own
social experiment by restricting electronic use during family vacations this summer: music - playing functions only.
The driving force behind the Harlem Children's Zone, which the New York Times has called «one of the most
ambitious social experiments of our time,» Canada unleashed his trademark passion and fire for his ongoing work on a captivated crowd Wednesday at Longfellow Hall.
TL; DR: In the
first social experiment of its kind, 40 Days of Dating chronicles the incredible journey of Jessica... (read more)
In this true story, Billy Crudup, in a nice comeback with strong work in «Rudderless» and now this, plays Dr. Philip Zimbardo, a Stanford University professor in 1971 who initiates what will become one of the most
famous social experiments of all time.
District is a space for artistic and
social experiments at the intersection of visual arts and other forms of knowledge production.
The French Revolutionaries engaged in
massive social experiment that invited a new kind of reflections about what kind of society is desirable.
Saleh's YouTube videos are often pranks or
social experiments set up to capture bystanders as they react to provocations.
Wooloo
creates social experiments in collaborative participation: like the online community, Wooloo's other works explore strategies in which several people take a role in the art - making process.
An extreme
social experiment involving an aggressive man «slut» shaming a woman and being «bottled» over the head while members of the public stand by and
The Honda Ridgeline is embarking upon round two of its
unique social experiment, attempting to clearly demonstrate how much beefy looks do or don't matter to pickup truck buyers.
The feeling of losing your first place rank because someone in the back so happened to pick up an unstoppable blue shell really sums up the level of chaos that makes Mario Kart such a frustratingly
fun social experiment disguised as a mascot racing game.
Immersive performances and
social experiments take root in DIY culture with ideas relating to childhood nostalgia, public ceremony and a celebration of the home - made.
The Renewable
Living Social Experiment was conducted in partnership with University College London (UK) and the Tilburg University (NL).
It's a strange notion to think that Facebook has created this
vast social experiment for the betterment of mankind and not to sell ads to the highest bidder.
By sitting still for the elaborately
staged social experiments of reality TV, we supply further evidence for Milgram's main conclusion: «Ordinary people... without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.»
A carefully researched and deeply affecting dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially
transformative social experiment of our time: the Harlem Children's Zone.
What started off as an
awkward social experiment has become such a standard everyday tool that there's no way of telling the coming surprises and new...
But, readers of this blog know they sometimes receive some news early, so allow me to say this: This upcoming poll does give us an opportunity to witness a
little social experiment first hand.
Milgram narrates and addresses the camera directly, frequently breaking the fourth wall and discussing his life with an omniscient tone, while the film frequently embraces artifice in its form: rear projection, theatrical sets, blending in documentary footage, asides detailing
other social experiments from Milgram's colleagues, and at one point making the term «elephant in the room» more literal than metaphorical.
So does it really make sense to run a
major social experiment on 598 or 599 kids for the possible benefit of one or two?