Psychology experiment :invisible rope

[nukec]

Ok seriously.. How is this experiment? Look... You could use rope that is barely seen by human eye... So I would be cool and avoid that, because I didn't want to be JERK and tear the rope apart.. Come on, this is just how mannered you are..

[petereebb]

1 it is 100% fake u guys ar getting people to pretend at school I could see at the corner of the video people waiting fro u to set the invisible rope

2crappy music

3 wat was the black guys doing

[rasnandaacika]

cool guys !

[welletjes]

shitty soundtrack

[paramore23131]

it looks like your playing a card game(like pokemon or magic) with invincible cards

[knuffeldraakje]

If you look closely, this would have been funny(without injuries) if there was a rope aswell. so many would have fallen.... anyway, nice done!

[azfanification]

grey car driver at 7.32 is more of a risk taker.. corresponds to his/her personality of owning a good car?

[ykamar17]

Very interesting !

[keg2014]

i love the people in the cars XD

[keg2014]

at first i thought that people did that because it would be rude to walk inbetween them, but after seeing those people jump over it...XD

[tooheysold2006]

no people didnt want to go in between cause it looks like use are jacking urselfs

[20bubu00]

That is awesome :D

Hahahahahahaha

[mioakisan]

i was thinking that it would be rude to pass over them while there doing something..

[leonardo899]

Maybe I would have to have been there. But I don't think I would've jumped the invisible. I think I would have turned around to avoid the crazy people holding the invisible rope.

[PitLover1523]

Put a real rope there.. love to see the people who think they know the trick.

[Stu7923]

if i saw 2 people acting like that i would want to avoid them too. fucking pricks

[montoyag76]

Wow ... That was pointless and stupid !

[lopakahilo]

Shitty experiment. Majority of people don't walk between two people facing each other doing something dumbass.

[CelticReject]

Great experiment!!!

[instrumentofpraise17]

I like the music lol but great experiment!!

[Sterner62]

@haleysheresat i couldnt agree more

[HaleysHeresat]

Consider this: people might have been going around because they feel uncomfortable walking between two people who are obviously together doing something and they're facing each other. People don't like to walk through two people who are doing something together.

[TheNeilBlack]

@HaleysHeresat Came here to say exactly that.

[hardc0r3gam3r]

What a waste of time...

[Pegasos887]

Brilliant! :D

[gieusrok]

you're doing it wrong. You are supposed to walk as if there is an invisible rope on the floor, not crouch down and act like weirdos because then people will avoid you instead of the "rope".

[krysium]

I am a psych professor, several peopel bring up good poitns about other social norms. however I did see a lot of students rerouted past the psychology building during grad school by a student telling them there was construction, when obviously there was not.

[rockisbetter]

hahahaha nice try hahahahahaha

[BlueBlaBle]

I don't know about everyone else, but i don't usually go in-between two people facing each other if i don't have to.

[58kinght88]

this proves nothing its stupid

[TheLovelyBambi]

WIN.

[susankohistany]

cute baby!!!

[thepoise88]

LOL

[Chapa7ld]

im sure it just shows that people dont want to walk in front of people who seem to be sharing a connection. Its why people say excuse me if they have to walk in between people.

[luchador1764]

the first thing that comes to mind is fishing line.

[Zedorek]

song reminds me of jeckyl and hide

[Whisperingtothefire]

see....I would have drived right through, or walked right through the invisible string/rope xD

[my4thone]

it could be because youre busy

[sakurakou2009]

I like what happend in school I think this would be my reacrion too to jumb of

[o0suzuharu0o]

or they thought you guys were playing some game and didn't want to interrupt...

[Gootch82]

lol the part with the cars is amusing

[psychYoMiND2Meta]

Even though it's not a valid experiment, I love it! It was interesting that the kids at school had better reactions than at wall-mart (though i think the methods were off at the store, and not comparable)

The car had me dying!! good job guys. super creative.

[iWannaBeAdopted1]

now try it with a piece of dental floss.....

[iWannaBeAdopted1]

2:11 : "wtf?"

[LRRNN]

hehehe... in the streets wasvery very funny!! thanksss... :D

[Mattress121]

lol u do this on the side of roads

[milkenobi]

The result of the experiment is: yes, you are idiots

[shonuff85]

1:41 he whipped his badge out like a Walmart bauce lol

[RMJ1989DK]

what's the song called, which starts at about 2 and a half minutes in the vid ?

[gl3Ndi]

Lmfao, I love psyhcology.

[balazsqb]

what"s the first song?

[buttersyrupnpancakes]

i'd have run through and jumped! those people have imagination :D this proves nothing about conformity, just shows people respect performance art :P

[rob3223]

oh i would have disrupted on purpose just to see which one of you pussies would step up and knocked hte eff out.

[Vushigi]

Im going asume this was all shot in alabama

[odish16]

Sorry but this is too lame.

[noobnuggety2011]

I like how the people who walk through it trip up a little... natural reflexes?

[TheHammerFilms]

We have a local bike/running trail that is pretty busy. Maybe if you had one where you lived that might be a cool place to do this too. I know I will.

[SportsGirl234]

I love the troll that jumped over the rope and clapped his feet ;D

[flamingaxelburn]

@SportsGirl234 There should be a troll who pretends to get tripped by the... rope... I saw a guy do that to a mime who was doing an invisible wall, pretended to run smack right into it.

[alexgrinkov]

Many psychology tests (if not all) have the problem described in the top comments. They don't notice their (psychologist's/observant's) presence affects the outcome a lot, what renders it bullshit.

[irokauk]

I muted in the very beginning, then stopped watch a sec after that!

[DecreeB]

Why are the top two comments the same? Second, why is the one with the most thumbs up the one that was written later. @gpburr rephrased @missineichen but people thumbest up him more? Interesting...

[jaarekparf]

Didnt like it, you shouldnt do it at the middle of their way, because they just dont wanna interrupt you both. I think its better to take one person to this experiment, so the "interrupting" factor will be much lower.

[CaptainObvious0000]

this proves that people are afraid of psychopaths :)

[IAmWize]

@CaptainObvious0000 Haha, Exactly ;D

[115breno]

to me it seems all these psych tests only work on the lemming type people, which may be about 80% of the population. but i assure you not everyone is this stupid.

[morelshroomgirl]

To hell with other people's responses, this was a great video and the cars proved your point about the invisible rope. Yea some people tried to avoid you as courtesy, but with different variations you have proved your point.

[Leiflton]

lol the car ones are AWESOME.

[TheDisPwned]

As others have pointed out, this is a bad experiment that poorly illustrates the intended effect. If I saw two guys doing this in the local Wal-Mart, I wouldn't think that there was a rope between them, or that other people weren't walking between them because their was a rope. But I would walk around them, because they are quite obviously in the middle of something, and it would seem rude to me to just walk between them like that. Like shoving through two people in the middle of a conversation.

[R2Mintus]

@TheDisPwned

or like stepping in front of a camera when people are taking pictures. It's more or less a common courtesy thing.

[kkrazikelly]

Walmart!

[raphdoggaz81]

i found this pretty funny, and the cars were funny as hell (i was like 'hell no' at the last one). but lets be honest, i'd do the same, rather play it safe and look like an idiot to two people than risk trippin and lookin like an idiot in front of anyone. for all we know, there could be a thin thread

[Armaniwazhere]

umm sorry but this is a fail... u should have done it on a road or something.. where there would be no other choice but to go through.. I would have went around out of RESPECT... why would I interrupt two gentlemen that look like workers..

[gtarbmx]

this experiment is flawed for two reasons: people might not want to interrupt your activity or they might think that there actually is a thin wire. just because of the uncertainty of the situation this experiment doesn't prove that people will TRUST the behavior of other but that they will DISTRUST any suspicious behavior.

[jakoson7]

still funny as hell with the cars tho lmao

[Paralax96]

The akward moment when they DO have a string.

[vince62moneybaby]

@gpburr this applies to your comment as well.

[SoraHarukey]

i gotta get my dad to try this with me in our wal-mart XD

[godsarmy14]

this was awesome!!! hahaha what idiotic ppl!

[mstenorsaxplayer]

nice :)

[1plutoway]

So funny

[1plutoway]

That kids so cute

[cstreet19861]

I don't agree with the definition of bottom up vs top down. Taking on board social information that needs to be inferred from the behaviours of others is about as top-down as it gets for me, whilst bottom-up would be something that is physically present, visible (if talking about vision), and forces your attention towards it by means of its physical properties (bright, shiny, etc)

[mssinatra]

Lol we did that one time with cars at sonic haha

[GamerProductz]

0:37 This kid looking at these 2 guy's Thinking "What are those Damn nut-Heads Doing? i mean Seriously who could fool anybody from that? Ha."

[p3ngu1n48]

This is the worst dance party ever.

[hawt4sanjaya]

omg the cars were the funniest thing ive ever seen!

[Roserade336]

XD!!!

[LABBChaCha]

I would walk between them and pretend to trip and fall. Just to mess with them :)

[ch3ckm8]

Well, I don't think people were thinking of a ''rope'' but rather a very thin thread that they could not see. It's much easier to simply raise your foot than actually observe closely if there was actually a thread...

[betatalk357]

The only way somebody would impede them was if an employee had a large object that MUST be moved down that aisle. The size of the object would require more space, forcing the employee to make space available. The employee has the authority to compel a shopper to accomodate safety precautions because they hold some responsibility over a shopper's safety while they are on the premesis. And enforcing its essential location makes it non-negotiable to relocate the object elsewhere away from them.

[betatalk357]

People shopping in Walmart perceive the 2 boys or their activity as an obstacle, regardless of whether or not there was a rope, barrier, or other obstacle in between them. Therefore, shoppers avoided them as any interaction with these 2 would've impeded their activity of shopping or their progress of completing shopping. Also, there was plenty of space for shoppers to navigate around them, so interfering with the 2 boys was unnecessary.

[sprPee]

mute button we meet again

[mEhErika]

i would think it was a clear string so i woulda crossed over it lol

[BronxBomber1237]

even if there was nothing there, i wouldnt just go between two people. i guess that would be rude. i dont walk through two people talking

[JustBecause110]

It's Walmart, what are you going to expect?

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

actually, this has little to do with what you hypothesized.

If you think about it, it's the idea that these people may know something I don't, they may have a tiny wire which I can't see from up here while walking, and I might as well avoid it.

[kutlessRULES4life]

lol thats so funny inside walmart :) the kid was cute :) nice experiment :)

[xielop93]

That is a pretty cool experiment. I noticed how people did what others did.

[gpburr]

This is kind of a bad experiment.. people may not necessarily think that there is a rope impeding their path, but they may simply want to avoid disturbing whatever odd activity in which you two are engaging.

[surt1n]

@gpburr my rationale exactly

[14sJakeB190]

@gpburr What else would they think it is?

[gpburr]

@14sJakeB190 I have no idea, but if it were ME, I would certainly want to avoid two weirdos crouched down in the middle of the aisle doing god-knows-what. I certainly wouldn't think "OH GOD NO, THAT ROPE THAT THEY CLEARLY HAVE IS GOING TO TRIP ME, BETTER GO AROUND. "

[IAmWize]

@gpburr That's exactly what I'm thinking..

[googletoogle]

@gpburr Right Its like someone taking a picture of a group of people the same distance apart.

[famileri]

You like your jerking off and people didnt want cum on them.

[somebody9876543210]

Yea this is a lot of this is bullshit... I'm pretty sure most of the people didn't walk between you b/c they didn't know wtf you were doing, it doesn't even look like you're holding a rope..

[MrEdilaga]

 ur masturbarting, or acting like moving rope?)

[darklyperfect]

what a waste of time

[rbrtchng]

Do people actually think it's an invisible rope or do they just not want to disturb whatever you were doing. Because I didn't even know what you guys were doing with your hands. It looked more like you're trying to masturbate your thumbs than anything else.

[PiporraHdz]

THE BEST WAS WHEN YOU DID IT WITH THE CARS!

[samy94kb]

so funny the black who give a kick to now if theres something^^ it's like when you jump on your tree house to see if it's well fixed

[magodeoz30]

Title should be Psychology experiment: trollin people

[Crazee108]

i think it's not because they think there is a ROPE but because ppl realised you two were doing something and didn't want to disturb you... its like you wouldnt step in between ppl when theyre talking

[nanderiin]

LMAOO the ending

[iuyklklk]

That was really intriguing. The cars stopping was fascinating. Those two guys held that car up just by the power of suggestion.

[Belldandy722]

I wouldn't walk in between you two because I would feel its rude. For example: I don't walk in between two people who are having a conversation even if they are a bit apart. If I have to I will say: "excuse me". I know I'm not the only one, so make sure you take those kinds of factors into consideration (:

[darklyperfect]

@Belldandy722 exactly. this experiment is actually more to see who're the rude ones and who are the conformists.

[Belldandy722]

@darklyperfect Oh okay ^^ Well I bet it was fun! :D

[emilbiz]

people didnt walk between you not because they thought there was a damn rope but because they thought something was wrong with you 2. Also because they thought you were doing something and didnt want to be rude and walk inbetween u.

[Q8footballFan]

why the heck did the did i waste my time i only stayed watching cuz the song was ketchy

[sorrygigs]

rolf  3:50 :))

[yousuckvlog]

ok

[missineichen]

poor experiment. people walk around the guys cos they dont want to interrupt what they're doing. it's the same as when u walk around people taking photos of each other

[videoeyer]

When I saw that first car slowing down, I really did laugh out loud! It was an interesting effect!

[middylep]

The cars were hilarious. I'm sure it was dangerous. But I laughed.

[KakuMommy]

The tendencies for people is to not interrupt people that seem to be interacting...your test is irrelevant to me. It would me rude to walk in between two people that are talking, and to walk through the two of you would be like doing the same. Sometimes physical body language is more connective that anything. It has nothing to do with a "rope" it has to do with your connected body language.

[egadxxx]

@KakuMommy I doubt people would completely stop their vehicles on a highway just to not be rude to two people who were not even on the road. The rope is not the point. It's the fact that people tend to base their reality more on the behaviors of others more than their own empirical senses, which is the whole point of the experiment.

[DrDR3W98]

Lol works great at night when cars drive by

[MiZZVMN]

I never walk between people, it's kind of rude for some reason.

[gumako]

I'm not sure people avoided walking in between to avoid tripping on an invisible rope at Wal-Mart. I think they just wanted to avoid being in the middle of two oddly acting people.

I can't help but think the music masks over important dialog in which bystanders in the school setting were just playing along.

As for the cars, that was terribly foolish, and possibly even illegal as it could have resulted in accidents.

[Casideee]

I would kick the imaginary string, real or not im kicking it.

[BrianCardova]

Virginia Tech! Sweet

[robyneast1]

i mean u have to agree its interesting how people just assume that somethings gonna b there!!!

[LordoftheRink726]

I think some people are joking when they say do a trial with a real rope, but I seriously think you should. Its hard to tell from the camera angle whether people are fooled or playing along. A trial with a rope would give us information on how people react when there -is- a rope, and that way we can truly see if their behavior is the same. For example, there were some people leaping over the invisible rope, which I would find unlikely in the event of a real rope, as they'd be afraid to trip

[santran]

Music is as gay as you kids.

[Memooshee]

may I note a big factor in this experiment that was missed, the people didn't neccessarily go around you two because of the rope, but because they did not want to get in between you two. If you did this again but just crouched there, you would see the same results.

[pinche1994]

HAHAHAHAHAHHAAAHHAHA. I watched ALL of it!! :D I felt like I was gonna hav an asthna attack! When i dont hav asthma.

[laraza973]

@pinche1994 U FAIL!!!

[pinche1994]

@laraza973 i know. I hadn't laughed in a while i needed it

[laraza973]

@pinche1994 ur style of humor sickiens me.

[kkalano]

people just didnt want to get int the way of ur circle-jerk 

[dolom1]

next time do it with a real rope XD

[TieFreaty]

now i wanna do this



[in2ennui]

Well sight is imperfect, and logically a person does not have time to ponder the existance of a "rope" or string if at first it is not immediately visable. And why would a person expect trickery in that regard, they would assume the scenario as displayed is true!

[triplea007]

... and nobody was able to come to the conclusion that walking in front of two people who are obviously communicating is just "rude"? Even if they were standing there, just looking at each other, people still would have gone around. However, what the experiment is trying to prove is true, but this experiment does not prove it by a long shot. A good way to prove it is walking in a crowd and then have a bunch of guys duck at once. You'll see the rest of the crowd follow suit.

[Iamisfp]

@triplea007 I think that would demonstrate conformity more than top-down/bottom up processing.

I was also concerned for the lack of a control, as I would have probably avoided them in walmart for that very reason (rude). However, I think the school did a slightly better job, as well as the cars. In school you can clearly see people raise their steps a little bit to avoid the rope, but otherwise walk between them. I would not stop my car (nor many other people) to be polite. (character limit)

[PCade01]

@triplea007 i like your thinking. I would surely try that experiment with some of my friends.

[CK0490]

@triplea007 i came to the same conclusion that a person wouldn't want to walk between two people though it also works with cars and at 2:30mins in people start trying to walk over the "rope" at least one of these didn't have time to think about the situation. the use of the hallway worked well. so this shows it works.

[abhishek1993100]

Great job guys! I work for OPP. I am not going to do anything but this shit is funny.

[apinkg16]

What grade did you get?...this was too funny

[apinkg16]

the kid was like "What the hell are they doing!?!?"

[ShadowAbomination]

Wow, cool experiment!

On the one where you guys pretended to tie the rope to the two posts, I was hoping the driver would get out of the car to check.

[TehMikstPinoy]

haha, The kid is like 'Yeah! I know what you guys are doing!' xD

[VickyViolet]

Hilarious, you guys! Great job. :)

[itzzrudgenz]

i did this infront of a truck with my friend at like 10 pm :D

[b264753178]

hey man, wanna pretend like were beating off and watching each other in a shopping centre ? yeah why not

[cantavoidtrite]

Did anyone limbo danced their way through your invisible rope?

[jermd1990]

This is brilliant.

[19KISAME93]

How did you manage to get away with doing this experiment inside a walmart

[19KISAME93]

@19KISAME93 nevermind lol I commented to soon into the video lol

[Mahcahlah]

They obviously thought you guys where wacking each other off