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Entries in psychology (2)

Tuesday
Apr272010

On The Efficacy of Flava Flav

Flava Flav is a fascinating case study in the psychology of fans. He’s credited with popularizing the role of the hype man in rap groups, yet often gets unfairly hated on for this role because it appears “simple” and “pointless”. This is incorrect. Flava Flav had a profound effect on improving Public Enemy.

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Thursday
Mar042010

Who Do We Reward More, The Best or The Most Visible?

Since you’ve been reading my blog and know how I roll, you can probably figure this one out. (Read this  fantastic post by Eric Barker for the science.)

The most visible are consistently more rewarded than their performance merits.

That’s why Nickleback has sold over 6 million albums. They’re everywhere, whether you like it or not. Magazines, blogs, radio, tv, etc. Pretty much everyone knows about them. Yuck.

So what’s going on here? Why is this? Is this a giant troll that the world is going to unveil in a few years? (a la Andy Kaufman’s style).

Nope. Once again the peculiar human brain is at work.

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