217. What Happens When You Put on a Costume?

Would you steal Halloween candy? Should people be required to identify themselves online? And why did Angela go trick-or-treating in a trash bag?

SOURCES:Hajo Adam • , professor of management at the University of Bath. Marianna Cerini • , journalist. Edward Diener • , professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Illinois. Adam Galinsky • , professor of leadership and ethics at Columbia Business School. J. Nathan Matias • , assistant professor at the Cornell University Departments of Communication and Information Science. Lisa Morton • , paranormal historian and author. Isaac Bashevis Singer • , 20th-century Polish-American author. Philip Zimbardo • , professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University.

RESOURCES: • " Halloween Was Once So Dangerous That Some Cities Considered Banning It • ," by Christopher Klein ( History, • 2023). • " Why Do People Sometimes Wear an Anonymous Mask? Motivations for Seeking Anonymity Online • ," by Lewis Nitschinsk, Stephanie J. Tobin, Deanna Varley, and Eric J. Vanman ( Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, • 2023). • " From Pagan Spirits to Wonder Woman: A Brief History of the Halloween Costume • ," by Marianna Cerini ( CNN, • 2020). • " The Real Name Fallacy • ," by J.Nathan Matias ( Coral, • 2017). • " Can Your Employees Really Speak Freely? • " by James R. Detert and Ethan Burris ( Harvard Business Review, • 2016). • " 'Mask Index' Helps Predict Election Day Outcome • ," by Adriana Diaz ( CBS Evening News, • 2016). • " Enclothed Cognition • ," by Hajo Adam and Adam D. Galinsky ( Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, • 2012). • " Effects of Deindividuation Variables on Stealing Among Halloween Trick-or-Treaters • ," by Edward Diener, Scott C. Fraser, Arthur L. Beaman, and Roger T. Kelem ( Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, • 1976). • " The Human Choice: Individuation, Reason, and Order Versus Deindividuation, Impulse, and Chaos • ," by Philip G. Zimbardo ( Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, • 1969).

EXTRAS: • " What Is Evil? • " by No Stupid Questions • (2024). • " How to Maximize Your Halloween Candy Haul • ," by Freakonomics Radio • (2012).

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Lydbog: 27. oktober 2024