Wednesday, December 2, 2009

The Locked Door: The Secret Life of Snap Decisions


Our class was required to choose a chapter from the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell and present a summary and synopsis of the chapter to the class. I chose to write about the chapter I had to present in class as the topic of this picture. This chapter is based on the principle that we all are locked out of our subconscious mind, yet it still has an influence on the type of decisions we make. The book dispcribes an experiment in which a certain like minded group of individuals were subconsciously conditioned into acting in a different manner by simply relaying words of a certain attitude. However its not influential enough to be considered mind control because when one becomes aware of the subliminal messages, they automatically stop displaying their altered behavior. This shows the amazing potential for the subconcious mind.

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