Study on motivation to bulls*** relevant to revelation
Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 4:14 pm
I love that "bullshit" is an actual term from philosophy, and that it's getting studied in serious research.
It seems that the extent to which a person engages in bullshitting (communicating without concern for evidence or established knowledge) depends on their own knowledge, their estimate of their audience's knowledge, and moreover whether they think their audience expects an opinion:
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/05/22/th ... lshitting/
It seems that the extent to which a person engages in bullshitting (communicating without concern for evidence or established knowledge) depends on their own knowledge, their estimate of their audience's knowledge, and moreover whether they think their audience expects an opinion:
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/05/22/th ... lshitting/
I think the extent to which someone bullshits also depends on how much better they'll feel about themselves by coming across as knowledgeable or authoritative. And there seem to be some people that have a casual approach to reality in general.Overall, the participants who received no background information on Jim admitted to engaging in more bullshitting [about Jim]. Participants also bullshitted more when they felt more obliged to give an opinion, and when their audience was not knowledgeable about him. These latter two factors (obligation and audience knowledge) interacted, with social obligation being more potent. When feeling obligated to have an opinion, uninformed participants bullshitted a lot even when they knew their audience knew more than they did.
“Anything that an audience may do to enhance the social expectation that one should have or provide an opinion appears to increase the likelihood of the audience receiving bullshit,” Petrocelli said.