Well, I was planning on being productive (and leaving more awkward, potentially sorta creepy Facebook wall messages for people I hardly know), but then you had to go and pose this question to your apparently rather small audience. Being all too familiar with social loafing, the bystander effect, and other similar social-psychological phenomena, I found myself frozen in a state of indecision: Should I go merrily on my way, leaving it up to someone else to answer even though I knew the odds were against it? Or, should I listen to the tiny, vaguely creepy, nagging voice of Phil Zimbardo in my head and step up? Alas, I remained in this quandary for so long that the question became entirely irrelevant and I had nary a chance to ponder whether or not I should spend my hard-earned dollars to see Will Arnett in ice skating getup.
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April 9th, 2007 at 1:14 am
Well, I was planning on being productive (and leaving more awkward, potentially sorta creepy Facebook wall messages for people I hardly know), but then you had to go and pose this question to your apparently rather small audience. Being all too familiar with social loafing, the bystander effect, and other similar social-psychological phenomena, I found myself frozen in a state of indecision: Should I go merrily on my way, leaving it up to someone else to answer even though I knew the odds were against it? Or, should I listen to the tiny, vaguely creepy, nagging voice of Phil Zimbardo in my head and step up? Alas, I remained in this quandary for so long that the question became entirely irrelevant and I had nary a chance to ponder whether or not I should spend my hard-earned dollars to see Will Arnett in ice skating getup.
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