I'll Have What She's Having: Mapping social behaviour

Authors Mark Earls and Alex Bentley explore how ideas, behaviour and culture spread through the simple means of doing what others do.

[tarohoa]

Maybe, socializing is not as dependent on emotions as we think, but rather a common ground, like one person wanting the same thing as other. as long as there is something to gain from working together, it would make sense for evolution to sway in it's direction. Since most people do not like to think/analyse it would be easy to say that those who over-think and analyse have poor social skills, when in reality other people just instinctively perceive them as having less in common/different goal.

[Henrickunit]

The idea that we have to work it out for ourselves. We don't. That's one of the great things about being (a zombie). It's that you have people's minds around you, people's minds and bodies around you.
If you ask (zombies) if they are socially influenced or whether they act independently, they are more likely to tell you in a survey sense that they act independently.

[seriousbees]

I don't think the graph section is as informative as the guy would like. Sure there are fads which propagate through society and can be modeled with probability distributions in large number statistics, but that doesn't give much insight. Understanding the way these things propagate on an individual level would be more interesting.

[roymaitland]

I think it is a Well Informed choice to have what she is having because one can see it and smell it; a picture is worth... need to work on your categories. I don't think it is because a social member is having it but because it less unknown then the printed or 2D information in the menu.

[skeppsbrogatan]

An interesting video, though long winded. It does not give that much information considering it's 16 minutes long

[JeanKM]

"I agree with what he/they just said." (Paraphrased from last night's CNN GOP debate.)

[heroicx]

excellent video and i agree ill have what she's having is a major thing in our society

[migsmog]

@skeppsbrogatan I couldn't agree more. Interesting but could've used more substance

[hrolvnir]

Video was a little sparse, but 14:30 - 15:15 was quite apt.

[notworthwile]

Whens the next Animate going to be made?