Why We Do What We Do

Let's take a trip back in time to our discussion on the bystander effect, as well as an update on what has happened in research since. What other variables can account for the bystander effect? What about when there is no bystander effect? There is such as a thing as too many cooks in the kitchen, as they say.

Recommendations:
Abraham: A Haunting in Venice (movie: https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/a-haunting-in-venice)
Shane: De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (https://open.spotify.com/album/34LxHI9x14qXUOS8AWRrYD?si=i8Z8nRbHRLy29mwGutpzaw)

Links:

• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797615569579
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/bystander-effect#:~:text=Radiation%20and%20Health%20Effects&text=The%20term%20bystander%20effect%20describes,not%20directly%20hit%20by%20radiation.
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6790599/#:~:text=Further%2C%20a%20cross%E2%80%90national%20video,%2C%20%26%20Lindegaard%2C%202019).
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-020-09417-y
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1089268021995168
• https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-37653-001
• http://www.webclearinghouse.net/volume/1/Lathrop-TheEffects.php
• https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sipr.12063

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Most people report feeling that the TSA is successfully protecting against threats. Are they right? Some argue that not flying pushes people toward driving which is exponentially more fatal. What can we do about it? Many have some radical ideas. We'll unpack what there is to understand about the TSA.


Recommendations
Abraham: Sounds Fishy (https://bigpotato.com/products/sounds-fishy)
Shane: Hotline TNT - Cartwheel (https://open.spotify.com/album/6LrhvefGM7zcJpIdMC9otz?si=yVWBjXa2TAy-McHleJF8JA)

Links and References:

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellistalton/2019/01/28/is-the-tsa-really-necessary/?sh=5565d5c025e0
2. https://www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11687014/tsa-against-airport-security
3. https://www.theverge.com/c/23311333/tsa-history-airport-security-theater-homeland
4. https://www.securitydegreehub.com/airport-security-make-us-safer/
5. https://reason.com/2022/01/07/airport-security-measures-are-popular-but-pointless/
6. https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/full-year-2022-us-airline-traffic-data#:~:text=U.S.%20airlines%20carried%20194%20million,and%20388%20million%20in%202020.
7. https://www.npr.org/2021/09/10/1035131619/911-travel-timeline-tsa
8. https://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-interview-stopped-terror-attack-weekly-2019-1
9. https://www.cnn.com/2012/04/30/world/al-qaeda-documents/index.html
10. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tsa-touts-orlando-bomb-suspect-arrest/
11. https://vimeo.com/871252019
12. Garrick Blalock [email protected] , Vrinda Kadiyali & Daniel H. Simon (2009) Driving fatalities after 9/11: a hidden cost of terrorism, Applied Economics, 41:14, 1717-1729, DOI: 10.1080/00036840601069757
13. https://www.sheffield.com/air-travel-safest-mode-transportation#:~:text=For%20one%2C%20there%20is%20a,air%20at%20any%20given%20time.
14. https://www.airport-technology.com/features/scan-before-boarding-country-handling-airport-security-checks/?cf-view
15. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/72788/14-behind-scenes-secrets-tsa-agents

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Transportation is an enormous part of any economy. Airplanes are one of the more recent inventions that have changed the landscape of security around the world. In addition, the consequences of a plane failing accidentally or through the intentional destruction by bad actors is catastrophic. Therefore, the security of airplanes is of the utmost importance. Yet, the instances of terrorist actions or even attempts are vanishingly small. The TSA was designed to prevent terrorist activities. Is it working? Is it just creating the illusion of security? If we had to ask, you can probably already guess the answer. We kick off this two-parter by reviewing the history of airpot security and its trials and tribulations. What are your experiences? Let us know!

Recommendations Part 2
Abraham: Sounds Fishy (https://bigpotato.com/products/sounds-fishy)
Shane: Hotline TNT - Cartwheel (https://open.spotify.com/album/6LrhvefGM7zcJpIdMC9otz?si=yVWBjXa2TAy-McHleJF8JA)

Links and References:

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellistalton/2019/01/28/is-the-tsa-really-necessary/?sh=5565d5c025e0
2. https://www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11687014/tsa-against-airport-security
3. https://www.theverge.com/c/23311333/tsa-history-airport-security-theater-homeland
4. https://www.securitydegreehub.com/airport-security-make-us-safer/
5. https://reason.com/2022/01/07/airport-security-measures-are-popular-but-pointless/
6. https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/full-year-2022-us-airline-traffic-data#:~:text=U.S.%20airlines%20carried%20194%20million,and%20388%20million%20in%202020.
7. https://www.npr.org/2021/09/10/1035131619/911-travel-timeline-tsa
8. https://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-interview-stopped-terror-attack-weekly-2019-1
9. https://www.cnn.com/2012/04/30/world/al-qaeda-documents/index.html
10. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tsa-touts-orlando-bomb-suspect-arrest/
11. https://vimeo.com/871252019
12. Garrick Blalock [email protected] , Vrinda Kadiyali & Daniel H. Simon (2009) Driving fatalities after 9/11: a hidden cost of terrorism, Applied Economics, 41:14, 1717-1729, DOI: 10.1080/00036840601069757
13. https://www.sheffield.com/air-travel-safest-mode-transportation#:~:text=For%20one%2C%20there%20is%20a,air%20at%20any%20given%20time.
14. https://www.airport-technology.com/features/scan-before-boarding-country-handling-airport-security-checks/?cf-view
15. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/72788/14-behind-scenes-secrets-tsa-agents

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What makes someone a troll? We are all a little bit troll-y sometimes. We dive into how and why it works, when it is good and bad, and a brief history of trolls. Join us for the psychology of troll behavior.

Recommendations

• Abraham: Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities (https://www.netflix.com/title/80209229)
• Shane: Blink 182 - One More Time… (https://open.spotify.com/album/1OteY9OFTmoZ0vmZT89wPd; https://music.apple.com/us/album/one-more-time/1707257664)

Links and References:

1. Cheng, J., Bernstein, M., Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, C., & Leskovec, J. (2017). Anyone Can Become a Troll. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. CSCW ’17: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998213
2. https://apnews.com/article/biden-internet-broadband-bead-0b95fabd7f6833ce420c80d474a145a5
3. https://blog.hootsuite.com/how-to-deal-with-trolls-on-social-media/
4. https://computer.howstuffworks.com/troll.htm
5. https://medium.com/dose/what-did-trolling-look-like-before-the-internet-cb42890265c0

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Why are some people evil? What is evil anyway? Is evil even real? We discuss the philosophy of what evil is and why it occurs... if it occurs.

Recommendations

• Abraham: No One Will Save You (https://www.hulu.com/movie/no-one-will-save-you-9e96f51e-6806-4306-9773-e96b68d25305)
• Shane: Electric Shark Tattoo Studio (https://www.instagram.com/electricsharktattoo/)

Links and References:

1. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/concept-evil/
2. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil-kinds-origins/
3. https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/phil_of_religion_text/CHAPTER_6_PROBLEM_of_EVIL/Nature_of_Evil.htm#:~:text=%22Evil%22%20has%20a%20wider%20range,famines%2C%20floods%2C%20etc.)
4. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691026176/jung-on-evil
5. https://www.prisonexp.org/
6. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/193629/summary
7. http://www.zimbardo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2003-Evil-Chapter.pdf
8. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1745691615568998
9. https://www.psypost.org/2021/07/new-psychology-research-suggests-that-belief-in-pure-evil-can-put-blinders-on-peoples-thinking-61556
10. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acp.3795
11. https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/members/sigs/spirituality-spsig/walker.pdf?sfvrsn=2223ae50_2
12. https://www3.nd.edu/~jspeaks/courses/2007-8/20229/_HANDOUTS/problem-of-evil.pdf
13. https://reasonandmeaning.com/2016/04/09/can-there-be-goodness-without-badness/
14. https://iep.utm.edu/evil-log/

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In the 1970s in the US and other parts of the world, a great fear was blossoming in the hearts of normal, every day people. The very real threat of the conspiracy of the satanic cults! Dun Dun DUN! Except... the fear about satanic cults is actually pretty old. Why was there a new fear? What was really going on during the satanic panic? You've got questions, or at least we assume you do... and we've got (some) answers.

Recommendations

• Abraham: Wrath of Becky (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20916568/)
• Shane: Ahsoka (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13622776/) (again)

Links and References

1. https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/satanic-panic.htm#pt5
2. https://gizmodo.com/a-brief-history-of-satanic-panic-in-the-1980s-1679476373
3. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/642372/satanic-panic-history-1980s
4. https://www.cbc.ca/arts/satan-wants-you-filmmakers-q-a-sean-horlor-steve-j-adams-1.6822213
5. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/us/satanic-panic.html
6. https://www.npr.org/2021/05/18/997559036/americas-satanic-panic-returns-this-time-through-qanon
7. https://www.senate.mo.gov/LegislativeLibrary/Panic.html
8. https://www.vox.com/culture/22358153/satanic-panic-ritual-abuse-history-conspiracy-theories-explained
9. https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/mcmartin-preschool
10. Ehrman, A. (1976). THE ORIGINS OF THE RITUAL MURDER ACCUSATION AND BLOOD LIBEL. Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, 15(4), 83–90. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23258406
11. WAGEMAKERS, B. (2010). INCEST, INFANTICIDE, AND CANNIBALISM: ANTI-CHRISTIAN IMPUTATIONS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE. Greece & Rome, 57(2), 337–354. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40929483
12. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-enduring-panic-about-cow-mutilations

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Spooky season 2023 continues with this dive in to actual Satanism. It is a lot newer than you might think. Also, there are different kinds of satanism broadly categorized as "theistic" and "atheistic." Are you a stanist? You might become one after this episode... jk

Recommendations

• Abraham: Hail Satan? (documentary; http://www.hailsatanfilm.com/)
• Shane: Asohka (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13622776/)

Links:

1. https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/about-us
2. https://www.history.com/topics/religion/satanism#aleister-crowley
3. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-06/is-satanism-a-religion-of-social-justice/101591462
4. https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/satanic-beliefs-criminal-actions
5. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49392867
6. https://study.com/academy/lesson/satanism-beliefs-types-rituals.html\https://youtu.be/ohGj3BnOVyg?si=rm8q8EIZJCY4-mj6
7. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2017/02/10/the-devils-roots-theistic-satanism-in-metal/

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Welcome to our spooky, Halloween-themed kick-off! We went even more specific than usual and will be talking about Satan the whole month of October. Have you heard of left-hand path magic? Probably in one form or another. We unpack the history of left-hand path, how it is presumed to be used, and how it relates to Satan... if at all.

Recommendations

• Abraham: Yeung Man Cooking (https://yeungmancooking.com/)
• Shane: Entombed - Left Hand Path (https://open.spotify.com/album/5nrZejD99ZmAXrmrouIJcU?si=3DwqiNGfSpCytlhx5ZbG0A)

Links:

1. https://online.ucpress.edu/nr/article-abstract/12/4/28/70127/Left-Hand-Path-Magic-and-Animal-Rights?redirectedFrom=PDF
2. https://www.learnreligions.com/left-hand-and-right-hand-paths-95827
3. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/3/2/389
4. https://www.thedailybeast.com/hitlers-hunt-for-the-holy-grail-and-the-ghent-altarpiece
5. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/01/12/fbi-satan-mobplot-kill-ted-kennedy-097180
6. https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(08)00177-0
7. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1016/j.religion.2005.07.002

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What does the world look like when you are color deficient? Why are more men color deficient than women? Can glasses really help color deficient people see? Why is it color "deficient" and not color "blind?" These are all of the questions we assume you have and will want to have answered... so that's what we spoke about! Hopefully we were right...

Recommendations

• Abraham: Electric Vehicles
• Shane: The Toothsome Chocolate Emporium (https://www.universalorlando.com/web/en/us/things-to-do/dining/toothsome-chocolate-emporium-and-savory-feast-kitchen)

Links and References:

1. https://dictionary.apa.org/color-blindness
2. https://enchroma.com/pages/types-of-color-blindness?gclid=CjwKCAjwr_CnBhA0EiwAci5sih3dqGpr69NVBQcV_zUso4KFsRb40azoPM2OZHqHaaIL-n_t4tClUhoCERwQAvD_BwE (SHANE, CHECK THIS ONE OUT!)
3. https://youtu.be/r8OG0HNLz0w?si=M6APFImtZuiUABib
4. Jonauskaite D, Camenzind L, Parraga CA, Diouf CN, Mercapide Ducommun M, Müller L, Norberg M, Mohr C. 2021. Colour-emotion associations in individuals with red-green colour blindness. PeerJ 9:e11180 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11180
5. https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/do-color-blindness-correcting-glasses-work#:~:text=%22Colorblindness%20glasses%20are%20made%20with,Schwab%20says.

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Sorry for Abraham's poor mic quality this episode! It'll be back to normal next time. Why do people become pro wrestlers? Why do people watch professional wrestling? This semi-ancient/semi-recent theatre is underrated for the real risk and exploitation of the performers. But it ropes people in with it's narrative story, athletic performances, and incredible stunts. Listen in for the deep dive into the psychology of professional wrestling.

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