Why Are Some People So Easily Fooled?
Are you easily fooled? Why we fall for April Fool's Pranks. Ask me questions for a Q&A episode! My Twitter: https://twitter.com/nessyhill SUBSCRIBE to BrainCraft! Click here: http://ow.ly/rt5IE...
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This is the Tasmanian Mock Walrus. It’s an Australian marsupial around ten centimetres long. It’s mating call resembles the purr of a cat and it has the temperament of a hamster. Or… does it? The Tassie Walrus was first reported in the Orlando Sentinel on the first of April, 1984. They wrote that it ate cockroaches and made an ideal pet. So ideal that dozens of people called the newspaper asking where they could buy their mock walrus. Why are some people so easily fooled? The effectiveness of a lot of pranks lies in the power of suggestion. Back in 1965, the BBC aired an interview on April Fools Day with the man who invented “Smellovision”. He told viewers the smell of chopped onion and coffee were being transmitted through their television set...
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This is the Tasmanian Mock Walrus. It’s an Australian marsupial around ten centimetres long. It’s mating call resembles the purr of a cat and it has the temperament of a hamster. Or… does it? The Tassie Walrus was first reported in the Orlando Sentinel on the first of April, 1984. They wrote that it ate cockroaches and made an ideal pet. So ideal that dozens of people called the newspaper asking where they could buy their mock walrus. Why are some people so easily fooled? The effectiveness of a lot of pranks lies in the power of suggestion. Back in 1965, the BBC aired an interview on April Fools Day with the man who invented “Smellovision”. He told viewers the smell of chopped onion and coffee were being transmitted through their television set...
