Beber’s law shows a social psychological effect, when a person experiences a strong stimulus, the stimulus administered afterwards becomes insignificant to him. A commonly cited test experiment is this.
A person holding a 300 gram weight in his right hand will not notice much difference when a 305 gram weight is placed on his left hand until the weight of the left hand weight is increased to 306 grams. If the right hand is holding 600 grams, at this time the weight on the left hand has to reach 612 grams to feel the weight, and then a larger amount has to be added to feel the difference.
In fact, if you have a careful observation, it is not difficult to find that life is full of “Beebe’s Law” everywhere “. For example, the original $1 newspaper became 10 yuan a copy, you will certainly feel unacceptable; in contrast, the original 5,000 yuan computer rose 50 yuan, you must not have such a big reaction. Look at this story again.
A girl quarreled with her mother and left home in anger. After a day of wandering around, she came to a noodle stall until she was very hungry, but found that she forgot to bring money. The kind-hearted noodle stall owner cooked a bowl of noodles for her for free. The girl said gratefully, “We don’t know each other, and you’re so nice to me! But my mother, who was so cruel to me ……” The noodle stall owner said. “I just cooked a bowl of noodles for you to eat, you are so grateful to me, your mother helped you cook for more than ten years, you should not be more grateful? “The girl heard, the whole person froze! Yes, my mother worked hard to raise me, but instead of being grateful, I had a big fight with her over a small matter. The girl plucked up her courage and walked in the direction of home. When she almost reached the door, she saw her tired, anxious mother looking around. When her mother saw the girl, she shouted: “The rice is ready, go back and eat, the food is getting cold! “At this point the girl’s tears came out ……
We are accustomed to the care of family and friends; but a little help from strangers, but we are grateful. This is “Beebe’s Law This is the “Beebe’s Law” that operates on our feelings. With our family and friends, we take their care for granted and have high expectations. Sometimes they are a little less caring and we even speak ill of them. With strangers, we don’t expect much, so we are touched by a little help from them.
In fact, we should be appropriately touched by the help of strangers. However, we should be more grateful for the help of our friends and relatives. So, cherish our daily life and the friends and relatives around us!
In addition to family, other events in life can also illustrate “Beebe’s Law The invisible effect of “Beebe’s Law” is as follows.
A newcomer just started working, in the unit desperately performance, dedicated, and then slowly familiar with the environment will be slackened, the surrounding people will feel that this person pretentious, the previous performance are false, the person’s character is also questioned; another newcomer, the beginning of the seem useless, lazy and undisciplined, slowly familiar with the rules of the unit, know. Only can do on time to work, but everyone immediately praise his progress, performance is getting better and better, think this person asked for advancement, much better than the former. In fact, the total amount of work that the former has done is not known how much more than the latter.
As the saying goes, good people are hard to do. You work hard to plow, but because of doing a wrong thing to bury all the credit in front of you; while the bad guys can be praised for doing an ordinary good thing. As a result, everyone’s sense of things also has the illusion that the latter “true villain ” than the former “hypocrite “more trustworthy. In fact, these are all just Beebe’s law manipulating your feelings.
Beebe’s law tells us: rational analysis of the facts, do not feel free to discuss things by
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