ICOS Presents:

"On the Psychology of Culture:
Urban Legends, Mad Cow Disease, Drinking Tales, and the Mozart Effect"

Professor Chip Heath
Organizational Behavior, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

University of Michigan

March 5, 2004

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Introduction

Title Slide

Culture Slide

How Culture Arises

A Question

The "Marketplace of Ideas"

The "Marketplace of Ideas" (2)

The "Marketplace of Ideas" (3)

The "Marketplace of Ideas" (4)

The "Marketplace of Ideas" (5)

A Question

Culture Slide

Recipe for Analysis

Ideas & Practices

Example: Oral Traditions

Matador Example

Emotional Selection

Emotional Selection Graphic

Genres of Legends, Rumors

Genres of Legends, Rumors (2)

Genres of Legends, Rumors (3)

Disgust Motifs

Study 1

Study 2

Study 2: Manipulating Emotion

Study 2: Manipulating Emotion

Study 2: Manipulating Emotion

Study 2: Manipulating Emotion

Effect of emotion on pass along…

Study 3: Distribution on Internet

Study 3: Frequency of motifs

Study 3: Distribution on internet

Emotional Selection, II

Mad Cow Disease in France

Mad Cow Disease in France (2)

Beef consumption

Health panic?

Beef consumption

Government activity

Time Series

Lab Study of Frames

Lab Study of Frames (2)

Lab Study of Frames - Means

Lab Study Analysis

Frequency of Frames

Emotional Selection - Conclusion

Extremity Bias: Drinking Tales & Job Interviews

Drinking Tales

News definition

Extremity Bias Graphic

MBAs: Illusions

MBAs: Negative Illusions about Interviews

Which peers do MBAs discuss

Predicting Perceived Interview Rank

Drinking Tales

Stories and Observations by Day

Drinking Tales

Extreme Observations / Typical Stories

Drinking Tales

Impact

Social Comparison

Extremity Bias and Active Environment

Semantic Stretch

Persuasion graph

Persuasion graph

Attempts at persuasion

Semantic Stretch

Evaluatives: Goodness

Synonyms for "good"

Badness

Synonyms for "bad"

Evidence for semantic stretch

Unique

Unique and Unusual

Defenses

Defenses Graph

Counterfactuals

Counterfactuals Graph

Semantic stretch & verbal commons

Cultural Prominence

Process Graphic

Process Graphic (2)

Prominence

Magnification Effect

Attention peaks

Attention Peaks: Top 50 Golfers

Attention Peaks: Top 100 actors

Matthew Effect

Goliath Effect

Cultural Prominence

Two questions

Selection Mechanisms

Culture slide

Worth Studying Cultural Products

Culture slide

Culture slide (2)

Culture slide

Connected yet independent

Mozart Effect in Science

Mozart Effect as Good Parenting

Mozart Effect in Legislation

Mozart Effect - Worldwide audiences

CD from Chongging China

Evolution of Mozart Effect over time

"Solutions" find Problems

Connected yet independent

Worth Studying Cultural Products

7 +/- 2

Folk taxonomy

Combo

Fragale and Heath

Positive emotion

Worth Studying Cultural Products

Questions

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