my english teacher told us about his friend that majored in psychology in college & how he would walk into the classroom & stare at the ceiling until the whole class was saring at the ceiling to. is there a specfic name for this?
2007-11-11 03:54:11 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Mimicing. Seriously. That's what it is called. People mimic others.
2007-11-11 14:16:36 · answer #1 · answered by Urvashi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Curiosity.
You see someone fixated on something on the ceiling and so you assume it's something really interesting, and so everyone else starts looking for the thing that the first person is looking at.
2007-11-11 12:19:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
may be some kind of general social hypnosis
2007-11-11 12:07:05 · answer #3 · answered by I M Stoned 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of that...but its called imitating.
2007-11-11 12:04:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Monkey see, monkey do
2007-11-11 12:08:28 · answer #5 · answered by darkcloud 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋