As a psychology major, it’s not uncommon to hear people make negative remarks about the psychology field. There is the typical comments about psychology being a soft-science and a useless major. To these people, psychological studies are made-up to convince us that everyone is crazy or abnormal. Well, the next time you encounter these people, keep in mind these practical and not made up applications of psychological research.
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Persuading others your opinion represents the whole group:
Say you are in meeting at work where everyone is discussing a new policy that you believe is unfair and takes away from the work you do. Now, you want to convince everyone else, including your boss, that the new policy is a bad idea but are pretty sure no one else is as worked up as you are about the policy. What do you do? According to a psychology study, to convince others that your opinion is representative of the majority, then just repeat yourself. This surprising psychology study finds that if one person in a group repeats the same opinion three times, it has 90% of the effect of three different people in that group expressing the same opinion. (more…)
