Saturday Learning Series - The call to Abraham (part 4)

  Jordon Peterson's lecture series continued from last week.

Saturday Learning Series - The Psychological Significance of the Biblical stories (pt 3)

 Jordon Peterson's lecture series continued from last week.

The psychology of crowd momentum

This is fascinating from a psychological or sociological perspective. And it has deep implications for politics. One guy dancing weird is, well, weird.  But when a second guy joins it becomes a little less weird and after the third guy joins it becomes a flood.  It's now okay to join in. And at some point, maybe it becomes unacceptable to leave.

A better view of the crowd joining:

Trolling

The day got away from me and I didn't get a chance to write about my social media topic of the day (following the theme of the week).  Today I was going to talk about trolling. Let me share this for those of you who don't know what trolling actually is, in addition to some basic ideas on the psychology of trolling.  Tomorrow I'll try to catch upon the topic in addition to my planned topic for tomorrow.