Now science steps in, and you get the results.
http://www.jonesreport.com/article/06_08/2...n_exposure.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSAOQuLxSdY
Full Version: Why idiots vote for puppets
Subliminal messages are nothing new.
But I liked this paragraph:
I knew it already, but it confirms once again why my fellow Italians voted for a mafioso, who couldn't care less about Italy's best interest.
But I liked this paragraph:
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"The more familiar we are with people, faces, colors, geometrical shapes, odors, foods, and many other things, the more we like them (for a review, see Bornstein 1989). Robert Zajonc termed this phenomenon the mere exposure effect to indicate that the mere repeated exposure to an object suffices to increase one's liking for it (Zajonc 1968).
I knew it already, but it confirms once again why my fellow Italians voted for a mafioso, who couldn't care less about Italy's best interest.
Hey least you get the chance to vote for a new leader.
QUOTE (Running With Scissors @ Jul 3 2008, 01:57 AM) 
Hey least you get the chance to vote for a new leader.
Hey at least your leader isn't unfathomably idiotic.
QUOTE (Numberzz @ Jul 3 2008, 03:10 PM)
Hey at least your leader isn't unfathomably idiotic.
That is very true. Normally British Prime Ministers are not idiots or criminals.
QUOTE (Alessandro17 @ Jul 3 2008, 06:35 PM)
That is very true. Normally British Prime Ministers are not idiots or criminals.
Though I have to say the last two haven't done themselves any favours
QUOTE (JonTheSavage @ Jul 4 2008, 03:55 AM)
Interesting. Can you define stupidity?
It's just that I found this cool docu about stupidity and I would like to know how you see it.
QUOTE (Alessandro17 @ Jul 3 2008, 05:35 PM)
That is very true. Normally British Prime Ministers are not idiots or criminals.
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