James Brody
October 23rd, 2008, 12:23 PM
Where oscillators share similarity and mutual influence, synchrony emerges. True for marriage, for friends, for "racism"...
JimB
"Voters Swayed By Candidates Who Share Their Looks, Researchers Say
"ScienceDaily (Oct. 23, 2008) — Made up your mind who(m!) to vote for?
"Maybe it's because you like the looks of the candidate. Or maybe it's because the candidate looks a little like you, even if you don't realize it.
"In a paper slated to be published in the December issue of Public Opinion Quarterly, Jeremy Bailenson, an assistant professor of communication, and Shanto Iyengar, the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor in Communication, say that people are subconsciously swayed by candidates who share their facial features.
"'The field of political science has been dominated by the main ideal that voters are rational and that voters base their decisions on substance and issues and policy,' Bailenson said. 'We wanted to say, 'Well, how much of our decisions are actually based on superficial qualities?'"
"The answer: More than they expected."
More at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081023004653.htm
See also: Strogatz, S. (2003) Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. NY: Hyperion.
Daniels, Bryan C. (2005) Synchronization of globally connected nonlinear oscillators: the rich behavior of the Kuramoto model. Physics Department: Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. Demo at http://physics.owu.edu/StudentResearch/2005/BryanDaniels/kuramoto.html
And from National Review:
Easton, Michelle (10/23/08) Sarah Shows the Way: Success that Inspires. National Review (onLine) http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTcyZGFmNGFlN2FlOTUzNGMxNDUwYWFjZjNhYjVmMTQ=
"Sarah Shows the Way: Success that inspires.
"By Michelle Easton
"Sarah Palin makes it O.K. to be a young conservative woman on a college campus. Conservative women didn't have anyone like Palin to look up to at such a high national level before this. And because she is a woman, even girls who might have liked Hillary Clinton are now listening to conservative ideas. —Catherine Helsley, senior, Randolph-Macon College
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"Sarah Palin's success as a national candidate — including her performance in the vice-presidential debate and the five-figure crowds she draws daily — is a giant step forward for women, especially young women. Palin is the most exciting new woman leader in America, and one big reason is that her own accomplishments and personality are what got her the nomination. She is not on the national ticket because she is someone's spouse or because her husband died, but because of her unique and inspiring professional experience and her extraordinarily compelling qualities. As with John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, she makes Americans want to know more about her."
JimB
"Voters Swayed By Candidates Who Share Their Looks, Researchers Say
"ScienceDaily (Oct. 23, 2008) — Made up your mind who(m!) to vote for?
"Maybe it's because you like the looks of the candidate. Or maybe it's because the candidate looks a little like you, even if you don't realize it.
"In a paper slated to be published in the December issue of Public Opinion Quarterly, Jeremy Bailenson, an assistant professor of communication, and Shanto Iyengar, the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor in Communication, say that people are subconsciously swayed by candidates who share their facial features.
"'The field of political science has been dominated by the main ideal that voters are rational and that voters base their decisions on substance and issues and policy,' Bailenson said. 'We wanted to say, 'Well, how much of our decisions are actually based on superficial qualities?'"
"The answer: More than they expected."
More at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081023004653.htm
See also: Strogatz, S. (2003) Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. NY: Hyperion.
Daniels, Bryan C. (2005) Synchronization of globally connected nonlinear oscillators: the rich behavior of the Kuramoto model. Physics Department: Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. Demo at http://physics.owu.edu/StudentResearch/2005/BryanDaniels/kuramoto.html
And from National Review:
Easton, Michelle (10/23/08) Sarah Shows the Way: Success that Inspires. National Review (onLine) http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTcyZGFmNGFlN2FlOTUzNGMxNDUwYWFjZjNhYjVmMTQ=
"Sarah Shows the Way: Success that inspires.
"By Michelle Easton
"Sarah Palin makes it O.K. to be a young conservative woman on a college campus. Conservative women didn't have anyone like Palin to look up to at such a high national level before this. And because she is a woman, even girls who might have liked Hillary Clinton are now listening to conservative ideas. —Catherine Helsley, senior, Randolph-Macon College
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"Sarah Palin's success as a national candidate — including her performance in the vice-presidential debate and the five-figure crowds she draws daily — is a giant step forward for women, especially young women. Palin is the most exciting new woman leader in America, and one big reason is that her own accomplishments and personality are what got her the nomination. She is not on the national ticket because she is someone's spouse or because her husband died, but because of her unique and inspiring professional experience and her extraordinarily compelling qualities. As with John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, she makes Americans want to know more about her."