Paid Story
When someone dies mysteriously during a Psych experiment, Rhiannon becomes enmeshed in a conspiracy that includes both the survivors and the killer.
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Short on cash, Rhiannon Ford signs up to take part in a social psychology experiment based on group think. But when a participant dies under mysterious circumstances, and the story surrounding that death seems mired in conflicting lies, she's quickly drawn into a web of conspiracies that merge urban legends, rivalries, and the very psychological principle the test was about. When everyone is lying, how can Rhiannon find the truth?
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[[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]
- foreword
- important note - please read!
- part one | before
- 01 | behaviorism
- 02 | groupthink
- 03 | reinforcement
- 04 | superego
- 05 | epistemology
- 06 | all-or-none law
- 07 | extinction
- 08 | circadian rhythm
- 09 | neuromodulator
- 10 | introspection
- 11 | deontology
- 12 | obedience
- 13 | serotonin
- 14 | watson
- 15 | law of effect
- 16 | milgram
- 17 | dopamine
- 18 | freud
- 19 | diffusion of responsibility
- 20 | bystander effect
- part two | after
- 21 | conformity
- 22 | debriefing
- 23 | cognitive dissonance
- 24 | hindsight bias
- 25 | cohesiveness
- 26 | non-zero-sum games
- 27 | deindividuation
- 28 | counterfactual thinking
- 29 | group polarization
- 30 | just-world phenomenon
- 31 | persuasion
- 32 | attachment
- 33 | normative influence
- 34 | skinner's box
- 35 | zimbardo
- final note