Andrew Cohen

my-ear-trumpet:

bokane:

Sh*t just got real.

“You are getting sleepy…. sleepy.”

That would do it.

So that’s how they did it!

thatandycohen:

Or, just the parts I was in: Second round. Final round. 

thatandycohen:

“ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!”.

thepenguinpress:

Which wall is bigger? As Adam Alter illustrates, your answer depends on where you were born:

In the late 1800s, German psychiatrist Franz Müller-Lyer designed one of the world’s most famous visual illusions. The illusion became popular because it was easy to re-create and very difficult to shake. It began with a simple question: Which of the following two vertical lines is longer?

If you’re like almost everyone whom Müller-Lyer tested, Line B will appear longer than Line A. In fact, the two lines are identical in length, as this doctored version of the illusion shows:

For decades, vision researchers assumed that the illusion told us something fundamental about human vision. When they showed the illusion to people with normal vision, they were convinced that the line with the inward-pointing arrows would seem longer than the line with outward-pointing arrows. That assumption wasn’t really tested before the 1960s, because until then almost everyone who had seen the illusion was WEIRD—an acronym that cultural psychologists have coined for people from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies. In the early 1960s, three researchers remedied that oversight when they showed the illusion to two thousand people from fifteen different cultural groups. The illusion deceived the first few groups. Adults living in Evanston, Illinois, perceived Line B to be on average 20 percent longer than Line A, while students at nearby Northwestern University and white adults in South Africa similarly believed that Line B was between 13 percent and 15 percent longer than Line A. Then the researchers journeyed farther afield, testing people from several African tribes. Bushmen from southern Africa failed to show the illusion at all, perceiving the lines as almost identical in length. Small samples of Suku tribespeople from northern Angola and Bete tribespeople from the Ivory Coast also failed to show the illusion, or saw Line B as only very slightly longer than Line A. Müller-Lyer’s eponymous illusion had deceived thousands of people from WEIRD societies for decades, but it wasn’t universal.

How was it that African bushmen and tribespeople were immune to the illusion, when they shared the same visual and neutral anatomy as the Westerners who couldn’t shake the sense that Line B was longer than Line A? In the absence of biological differences, the answer was, of course, cultural.

Keep reading

Adam Alter is the author of Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave.

Title card from “Trilby” (1915)

nevver:

It’s easy … when you know how!

In truth: Not so much.

Yo, take it down a notch, Svengali.   

I tell people that almost everything they learned about hypnosis from popular culture is wrong, and this is a good example.

My first attempt at doing a stage hypnosis show, which I did for my daughter’s college friends at her house in New Brunswick on March 3, 2013.

Described as “a podcast highlighting the wonderful world of organizations and religious cults that practice mind control techniques and the weird, awful music they produce. Hosted by Amy and The Commander.”

thatandycohen:

Oh, hey, no biggie, but that’s me playing chess with Intl. Grandmaster Maurice Ashley at the Marshall Chess Club this afternoon. And if you look at the board and ignore any possible alternative explanation, I am totally winning.

thatandycohen:

Hypnosis-themed ice-cream cake served today at the Hypno Party at Abigail’s house.

cavetocanvas:

Weegee, Couple in a Voodoo Trance, c. 1956

nevver:

I feel fine/nothing

Two of my children, on Fathers Day.

The Empire strikes back … against the Empire State?

Suck it, Tilted Kilt

I love you too, U.S. Postal Service.

Being ironic? Can’t tell. (at 426 W48th)

Epic rant.

So now you know. 

ridesabike:

Kevin Bacon rides a bike.

Tough day in Dance City?

mpdrolet:

Juan Manuel Fangio, Milan, 1958

Maurice Jarnoux

You mean ‘MacBeth’? (at Ethel Barrymore Theatre)

Don’t MAKE me pull this car over.

Hey, that’s my bike … locked up in front of my house … as seen in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, page A20.

dynamoe:

Formica.

gq:

Ron Burgundy is back.

Watch the new trailer for Anchorman: The Legend Continues

This is the reason it was all 1970s on 6th Ave. outside my office building today. 

Oh, taxi! More 1970s-ness in midtown.

It’s 1973 outside. (at Time & Life Building Outside Fountain)

artekka:

5:00 P.M., September 3rd, 1967
Sweden changed from driving on the left side to driving on the right - this was the result

my-ear-trumpet:

bokane:

Sh*t just got real.

“You are getting sleepy…. sleepy.”

That would do it.

So that’s how they did it!

thatandycohen:

Or, just the parts I was in: Second round. Final round. 

thatandycohen:

“ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!”.

thepenguinpress:

Which wall is bigger? As Adam Alter illustrates, your answer depends on where you were born:

In the late 1800s, German psychiatrist Franz Müller-Lyer designed one of the world’s most famous visual illusions. The illusion became popular because it was easy to re-create and very difficult to shake. It began with a simple question: Which of the following two vertical lines is longer?

If you’re like almost everyone whom Müller-Lyer tested, Line B will appear longer than Line A. In fact, the two lines are identical in length, as this doctored version of the illusion shows:

For decades, vision researchers assumed that the illusion told us something fundamental about human vision. When they showed the illusion to people with normal vision, they were convinced that the line with the inward-pointing arrows would seem longer than the line with outward-pointing arrows. That assumption wasn’t really tested before the 1960s, because until then almost everyone who had seen the illusion was WEIRD—an acronym that cultural psychologists have coined for people from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies. In the early 1960s, three researchers remedied that oversight when they showed the illusion to two thousand people from fifteen different cultural groups. The illusion deceived the first few groups. Adults living in Evanston, Illinois, perceived Line B to be on average 20 percent longer than Line A, while students at nearby Northwestern University and white adults in South Africa similarly believed that Line B was between 13 percent and 15 percent longer than Line A. Then the researchers journeyed farther afield, testing people from several African tribes. Bushmen from southern Africa failed to show the illusion at all, perceiving the lines as almost identical in length. Small samples of Suku tribespeople from northern Angola and Bete tribespeople from the Ivory Coast also failed to show the illusion, or saw Line B as only very slightly longer than Line A. Müller-Lyer’s eponymous illusion had deceived thousands of people from WEIRD societies for decades, but it wasn’t universal.

How was it that African bushmen and tribespeople were immune to the illusion, when they shared the same visual and neutral anatomy as the Westerners who couldn’t shake the sense that Line B was longer than Line A? In the absence of biological differences, the answer was, of course, cultural.

Keep reading

Adam Alter is the author of Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave.

Title card from “Trilby” (1915)

nevver:

It’s easy … when you know how!

In truth: Not so much.

Yo, take it down a notch, Svengali.   

I tell people that almost everything they learned about hypnosis from popular culture is wrong, and this is a good example.

My first attempt at doing a stage hypnosis show, which I did for my daughter’s college friends at her house in New Brunswick on March 3, 2013.

Described as “a podcast highlighting the wonderful world of organizations and religious cults that practice mind control techniques and the weird, awful music they produce. Hosted by Amy and The Commander.”

thatandycohen:

Oh, hey, no biggie, but that’s me playing chess with Intl. Grandmaster Maurice Ashley at the Marshall Chess Club this afternoon. And if you look at the board and ignore any possible alternative explanation, I am totally winning.

thatandycohen:

Hypnosis-themed ice-cream cake served today at the Hypno Party at Abigail’s house.

cavetocanvas:

Weegee, Couple in a Voodoo Trance, c. 1956

nevver:

I feel fine/nothing