Experiment: Behavior and Emotions
Now going by the physics and chemistry experiments and how you might have gone about documenting them, will try something similar and try run a small experiment on understanding Behavior and Emotional patterns. I have done this earlier but for different conditions and requirements, most of the time it has worked and will give it a try again.
Aim : To understand Behavior and Emotional patterns, keeping in mind the Human and Social Networks.
Requirements :
1. Take your own example, social circle & Networks
2. Few Good and Bad Incidents.
3. Little bit of thought process.
4. Some Amount of time
Process : I would start by saying that, Behavior and emotions are extremely contagious. They spread from person to person like germs, touching thousands of people, influencing everything from our happiness and professional success It might sounds odd because as human beings, we like to believe that we—not our families or our social networks—are in control of personal and private decisions. But the truth is, we’re often deeply influenced by events we do not witness that happen to people we do not even know.
Most of us are aware of how our family members and close friends can impact certain choices we make, such as where we live, what we study and what professions we enter etc etc. But those were the instances that happened way back and the new and happening factor is “social influence”, this is far more powerful and widespread than we realize and doesn’t end with just the people we know well.
Understanding a new change is very important as the findings can help us counteract the negative effects of social influence, as well as foster its positive effects.
What has this done with me; Took some time out and studied few factors such as health, education, profession, Sports, “Girl friends”, Love, adventure, suicides, drinking & smoking habits and also extended it to sexual practices. The interesting thing that I found out was it is not just your own willpower or exercise to follow a regime, but also the belief’s of your extended social network will also play a part in it.
Ripple Effect : Take a look at the friend circle we are with and then study its impact. Dividing the groups:
1. Immediate Friends
2. Friends’ friends
3. Friends’ friends’ friends
Now that is lot of “Friends”. Our actions and choices affected our immediate friends, our friends’ friends and even our friends’ friends’ friends before the influence grew weak and dissipated. Likewise, we ourselves are influenced by people within these three (Points Mentioned) and mostly generally not more than that.
The typical person’s inner circle of close family and friend’s ranges from two to 15 people, whom we are regularly in touch with and interact with, and each of their outer circle of coworkers, neighbors, occasional friends and acquaintances is about 150, so we are each connected to and affected by thousands of other people. We spend our lives embedded in these living, breathing social webs. Take a note of your friends in some of your social networking sites, you might have a big number of friends showing up in your profile but out of those how many of them do you interact with at a regular basis.
Now how does this ripple effect “behavior and emotions spread” take place? Through a variety of mechanisms, such as direct imitative behavior, similar environmental exposures and our propensity to gather around us people, who think and act like us. At the same time, they also can spread in a more subtle way—through our desire to fit in and conform to social norms. Friends and family members change your notion of what’s acceptable or desirable, which in turn can influence your behavior and feelings.
For example, let’s say I have friends who drink. Simply socializing with those friends can alter your idea of “Social Drinking” and make you more susceptible. You might feel you look so cool and good in comparison to your friends when you drink that it’s not such a big deal if you have a few more round of drinks. So you let yourself have an extra drink that night, and you eventually you don’t give up this routine the next time. There can also be a case smoking in the same way.
Do all behavior and emotions spread the same way? Hmmm should say No, and that’s also tricky and fascinating part. Like different germs, different contagious behaviors spread in their own unique ways.
For emotional states such as happiness, loneliness and depression, physical proximity is very important. A person is more likely to feel happy if his immediate friend is happy. But that’s only true if the friend lives within one kilometer of him. Further away, and the effect dissipates. On the other hand, when it comes to behaviors such as eating, drinking and smoking, your friends who live hundreds of miles away have just as big an impact on you as your friends who live next door because we follow our friends’ norms even when they are far away from us.
Gender also can play a role. Some behaviors pass more powerfully through same-sex networks for reasons we cannot explain, or better we do not understand.
Inference :
1. All this might sound that we do not have control upon ourselves.
2. So, Point 1 is not all true.
3. These are just merely the likelihood; something like this happening is based up on the chances and probability.
4. Your genetics, cultural upbringing and individual thinking can all play important roles.
Results : Or read it as possible positives you can take
1. The benefits of a well connected life far outweigh the one without it.
2. The most consistently happy group of people were deeply involved and centrally located in their networks, which means that they had lots of friends who all had many friends themselves.
3. Your everyday actions and choices, no matter how small, really are important.
For example, it’s very helpful to do what it takes to put yourself in a good mood before you come home at EOD—because it will make your family happier, which increases the chance of making their friends happier, which radiates outward to touch many people. Of course, you can make a point to choose happy people to be around. But rather than asking what your social network is doing to you, ask what you can do for it. When you lose weight or quit smoking, it doesn’t just benefit you or your friends and family…it also benefits many other people around you as your behavioral change radiates outward.
Read it! Close it! And forget it! Probably this is what you might have done with your experiments...Enjoy!!!
Aim : To understand Behavior and Emotional patterns, keeping in mind the Human and Social Networks.
Requirements :
1. Take your own example, social circle & Networks
2. Few Good and Bad Incidents.
3. Little bit of thought process.
4. Some Amount of time
Process : I would start by saying that, Behavior and emotions are extremely contagious. They spread from person to person like germs, touching thousands of people, influencing everything from our happiness and professional success It might sounds odd because as human beings, we like to believe that we—not our families or our social networks—are in control of personal and private decisions. But the truth is, we’re often deeply influenced by events we do not witness that happen to people we do not even know.
Most of us are aware of how our family members and close friends can impact certain choices we make, such as where we live, what we study and what professions we enter etc etc. But those were the instances that happened way back and the new and happening factor is “social influence”, this is far more powerful and widespread than we realize and doesn’t end with just the people we know well.
Understanding a new change is very important as the findings can help us counteract the negative effects of social influence, as well as foster its positive effects.
What has this done with me; Took some time out and studied few factors such as health, education, profession, Sports, “Girl friends”, Love, adventure, suicides, drinking & smoking habits and also extended it to sexual practices. The interesting thing that I found out was it is not just your own willpower or exercise to follow a regime, but also the belief’s of your extended social network will also play a part in it.
Ripple Effect : Take a look at the friend circle we are with and then study its impact. Dividing the groups:
1. Immediate Friends
2. Friends’ friends
3. Friends’ friends’ friends
Now that is lot of “Friends”. Our actions and choices affected our immediate friends, our friends’ friends and even our friends’ friends’ friends before the influence grew weak and dissipated. Likewise, we ourselves are influenced by people within these three (Points Mentioned) and mostly generally not more than that.
The typical person’s inner circle of close family and friend’s ranges from two to 15 people, whom we are regularly in touch with and interact with, and each of their outer circle of coworkers, neighbors, occasional friends and acquaintances is about 150, so we are each connected to and affected by thousands of other people. We spend our lives embedded in these living, breathing social webs. Take a note of your friends in some of your social networking sites, you might have a big number of friends showing up in your profile but out of those how many of them do you interact with at a regular basis.
Now how does this ripple effect “behavior and emotions spread” take place? Through a variety of mechanisms, such as direct imitative behavior, similar environmental exposures and our propensity to gather around us people, who think and act like us. At the same time, they also can spread in a more subtle way—through our desire to fit in and conform to social norms. Friends and family members change your notion of what’s acceptable or desirable, which in turn can influence your behavior and feelings.
For example, let’s say I have friends who drink. Simply socializing with those friends can alter your idea of “Social Drinking” and make you more susceptible. You might feel you look so cool and good in comparison to your friends when you drink that it’s not such a big deal if you have a few more round of drinks. So you let yourself have an extra drink that night, and you eventually you don’t give up this routine the next time. There can also be a case smoking in the same way.
Do all behavior and emotions spread the same way? Hmmm should say No, and that’s also tricky and fascinating part. Like different germs, different contagious behaviors spread in their own unique ways.
For emotional states such as happiness, loneliness and depression, physical proximity is very important. A person is more likely to feel happy if his immediate friend is happy. But that’s only true if the friend lives within one kilometer of him. Further away, and the effect dissipates. On the other hand, when it comes to behaviors such as eating, drinking and smoking, your friends who live hundreds of miles away have just as big an impact on you as your friends who live next door because we follow our friends’ norms even when they are far away from us.
Gender also can play a role. Some behaviors pass more powerfully through same-sex networks for reasons we cannot explain, or better we do not understand.
Inference :
1. All this might sound that we do not have control upon ourselves.
2. So, Point 1 is not all true.
3. These are just merely the likelihood; something like this happening is based up on the chances and probability.
4. Your genetics, cultural upbringing and individual thinking can all play important roles.
Results : Or read it as possible positives you can take
1. The benefits of a well connected life far outweigh the one without it.
2. The most consistently happy group of people were deeply involved and centrally located in their networks, which means that they had lots of friends who all had many friends themselves.
3. Your everyday actions and choices, no matter how small, really are important.
For example, it’s very helpful to do what it takes to put yourself in a good mood before you come home at EOD—because it will make your family happier, which increases the chance of making their friends happier, which radiates outward to touch many people. Of course, you can make a point to choose happy people to be around. But rather than asking what your social network is doing to you, ask what you can do for it. When you lose weight or quit smoking, it doesn’t just benefit you or your friends and family…it also benefits many other people around you as your behavioral change radiates outward.
Read it! Close it! And forget it! Probably this is what you might have done with your experiments...Enjoy!!!
Environment around us does play a very important role in an individual's life.Having said that,even though ppl around us,their habits and their life influence us and our decisions.It is we who are master's of our decisions.So important point here is how far we stand on our decisions irrespective of other's influence (or) how far we have control on our regime irrespective of other's influence.Not to forget INFLUENCE does matter.
ReplyDeleteSiri, here influence might not necessarly mean the persons direct involvement but over the period the persons behavior pattern with you and what you take out of it might also be the important point...
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