SciShow Psych: How Political Questions Mess with Your Brain

Teacher or professor: SciShow Psych
Subject: Psychology
Content of the Lesson: When a telemarketer tells you they are “just asking questions” — whether about politics or anything else… be careful! Questions are often MORE than just questions. They can have a profound effect on our behavior and can influence our decisions, even if we don’t realize it. Check out SciShow's video on the psychology of negative campaigns here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz5fFLxT1io&ab_channel=SciShow Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18377136/ https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f842/ccd246187290f500ced8349d9b67ce2de3ed.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lauren_Block/publication/228740651_Coming_in_Under_the_Radar_When_Intention_Questions_Change_Behavior/links/09e4150956b3860683000000/Coming-in-Under-the-Radar-When-Intention-Questions-Change-Behavior.pdf https://faculty.washington.edu/agg/pdf/GwaldCarnotBeach&Young.JApplPsych.1987.pdf https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0197066 https://escholarship.org/content/qt4r7461w6/qt4r7461w6.pdf https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=voeQ-8CASacC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=festinger+1957&ots=9ycbPtp9ty&sig=A2Fh4yo-tz3T_EODk-ncYPIL11g#v=onepage&q=festinger%201957&f=false https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1207/s15327663jcp0801_03 https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article-abstract/32/4/550/1787448 https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.1086/322899.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597811001099 https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-1428-6_170 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23547445_Nonconscious_Goals_and_Consumer_Choice https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.379.7778&rep=rep1&type=pdf


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