Human behavior is very interesting to me. It is something that I think about quite a lot. So, I found the video “The Human Behavior Experiment” very intriguing. This video showed many instances in which people demonstrate how outside forces can affect their actions. 

We are easily influenced by many things, but especially the media. Due to our near constant consumption of it. There is so much information being thrown at us that seems legitimate. It is hard to be skeptical and critical of everything we see. So, as a result, the media definitely affects the way we think. 

One way that the media affects the way we think is the pure amount of media available to us at any one time. The news is full of bad things happening every day. Now, this includes bad things all over hte world. Very little things go unknown. So, with the large amount of bad news we consume, we often think the world is a lot worse than it actually is. We even fear the world a bit. 

Now, of course, when it comes to the bigger things or things we personally care about, most people know now that media is not always correct. You must be skeptical and critical of the information you trust. It takes time and multiple sources to really learn anything through mass media, in order to make sure you are getting the truth. But this can not be done with everything, and often, people don’t care enough to fact check anything. Which is okay, but then that can lead to trusting the wrong people, and being just like someone in one of these videos: trusting a man who is telling you to harm another person.

So my question is: how are you going to ensure htat you avoid any of these situations?