Daryl BEM experiments are very simple
and they’re it’s called feeling the
future it turns out that we can respond
a few seconds before an emotionally
arousing event our body starts preparing
for it before it happens
this research seems to me pretty
convincing I’ve been a subject in some
of these experiments myself you sit
there in front of a computer screen
you’re wearing electrodes that measure
emotional arousal you know adrenaline
causes sweating and emotional arousal
like at lie-detector it’s a standard way
of a measuring emotional arousal when
you’re ready you press a button and ten
seconds later a picture appears on the
screen most of the pictures are neutral
you know landscapes
you know bowl of flowers or something
like that some of them are scenes that
are emotionally arousing hardcore
pornography or scenes of extreme
violence now almost everybody when they
see hardcore pornography or scenes of
fantasies emotionally aroused even they
don’t want to be they are and you did
the lie detector thing shows a huge
emotional arousal the interesting thing
in these experiments is the emotional
arousal begins about five seconds before
the picture appears on the screen the
hearts teats beating faster the the
fight-or-flight response that you know
the adrenaline kind of response kicks in
so when the aspra when the stimulus
occurs the body’s already sort of revved
up with this emotional response now this
is work that dean radians done he’s
repeated it and it’s been replicated
elsewhere
it’s called presentiment
feeling in a trance and the decision as
to which picture appears on the screen
is made by the computer a millisecond
before it actually appears there’s no
one in the world knows what picture is
going to appear now this is really
interesting to see because it shows
there’s a kind of feeding back of
emotion now at Daryl BEM at Cornell who
is a very respected professor of
psychology has been doing a different
kind of experiment which doesn’t involve
the bligh detector his experiments have
you sit in front of a computer screen
and as two curtains there behind one of
those curtains there’s a blank wall an
image or a blank wall behind the other
one there’s a pornographic image now
most people even if they don’t normally
watch pornography are more interested in
seeing a pornographic image than a blank
wall and before you do the test you do
there’s a simple questionnaire you gaze
straight etc so people are gay get gay
pornographic images so what happens you
sit down the computer and you click on
one of those two curtains which which
one you want to click on you choose
which of the two it’s random whether
you’ll get the wall or the pornographic
image so you click on run and most
people would hope that they’re going to
see the pornographic image a different
one each time and and the computer makes
the decision which one to roll back
which curtain to roll back after you’ve
made the trick people don’t know that
this decision is only made by the
computer after they’ve decided they
think it’s already there so most people
don’t know that they’re doing a
presentiment test hmm so what happens is
in these experiments about 53 or 54
percent of the time people get the
pornographic image whereas by pure
chance they would it’ll be 50 percent
and if instead of a pornographic image
you have a sort of muddy pleasant
landscape or something that’s not
emotionally arousing it’s down to 50
percent so this is telling us that
something about emotional arousal can
work back in time
and when you think about fast sports
imagine you know tennis people are
serving at 90 miles an hour there’s not
time for the eye to take in the angle of
the ball to process it in the brain
through clunky brain processing to send
messages along nerves to muscles to get
the whole body ready or in a penalty
shootout the goalie has to in a foot
Persico match they have to react very
quickly [Music]
and they’re it’s called feeling the
future it turns out that we can respond
a few seconds before an emotionally
arousing event our body starts preparing
for it before it happens
this research seems to me pretty
convincing I’ve been a subject in some
of these experiments myself you sit
there in front of a computer screen
you’re wearing electrodes that measure
emotional arousal you know adrenaline
causes sweating and emotional arousal
like at lie-detector it’s a standard way
of a measuring emotional arousal when
you’re ready you press a button and ten
seconds later a picture appears on the
screen most of the pictures are neutral
you know landscapes
you know bowl of flowers or something
like that some of them are scenes that
are emotionally arousing hardcore
pornography or scenes of extreme
violence now almost everybody when they
see hardcore pornography or scenes of
fantasies emotionally aroused even they
don’t want to be they are and you did
the lie detector thing shows a huge
emotional arousal the interesting thing
in these experiments is the emotional
arousal begins about five seconds before
the picture appears on the screen the
hearts teats beating faster the the
fight-or-flight response that you know
the adrenaline kind of response kicks in
so when the aspra when the stimulus
occurs the body’s already sort of revved
up with this emotional response now this
is work that dean radians done he’s
repeated it and it’s been replicated
elsewhere
it’s called presentiment
feeling in a trance and the decision as
to which picture appears on the screen
is made by the computer a millisecond
before it actually appears there’s no
one in the world knows what picture is
going to appear now this is really
interesting to see because it shows
there’s a kind of feeding back of
emotion now at Daryl BEM at Cornell who
is a very respected professor of
psychology has been doing a different
kind of experiment which doesn’t involve
the bligh detector his experiments have
you sit in front of a computer screen
and as two curtains there behind one of
those curtains there’s a blank wall an
image or a blank wall behind the other
one there’s a pornographic image now
most people even if they don’t normally
watch pornography are more interested in
seeing a pornographic image than a blank
wall and before you do the test you do
there’s a simple questionnaire you gaze
straight etc so people are gay get gay
pornographic images so what happens you
sit down the computer and you click on
one of those two curtains which which
one you want to click on you choose
which of the two it’s random whether
you’ll get the wall or the pornographic
image so you click on run and most
people would hope that they’re going to
see the pornographic image a different
one each time and and the computer makes
the decision which one to roll back
which curtain to roll back after you’ve
made the trick people don’t know that
this decision is only made by the
computer after they’ve decided they
think it’s already there so most people
don’t know that they’re doing a
presentiment test hmm so what happens is
in these experiments about 53 or 54
percent of the time people get the
pornographic image whereas by pure
chance they would it’ll be 50 percent
and if instead of a pornographic image
you have a sort of muddy pleasant
landscape or something that’s not
emotionally arousing it’s down to 50
percent so this is telling us that
something about emotional arousal can
work back in time
and when you think about fast sports
imagine you know tennis people are
serving at 90 miles an hour there’s not
time for the eye to take in the angle of
the ball to process it in the brain
through clunky brain processing to send
messages along nerves to muscles to get
the whole body ready or in a penalty
shootout the goalie has to in a foot
Persico match they have to react very
quickly [Music]
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