>>8342834 pb
Story has been circulated for 20 years of a study that shows how primates can get deeply conditioned to behave in certain ways wo/having any idea how it happened
>>8342820 anon asks for sauce
>>8342342 anon finds sauce debunking the story but also good news, see below
http://www.throwcase.com/2014/12/21/that-five-monkeys-and-a-banana-story-is-rubbish/
The following passage is from a study that superficially resembles the one described here:
>>8342834 pb (see article for details)
''So in some pairs the new ‘naive’ monkey did learn to fear the object after seeing how the conditioned monkey was afraid of it.''
However, in other pairs, the fearless behaviour of the naive monkey ended up teaching the conditioned one not to fear the object anymore
''Note that this is exactly the wrong type of evidence for a ….story about “following the herd”.''
Cultural Acquisition Of A Specific Learned Response Among Rhesus Monkeys (1966).
So in this experiment:
Some primates helped others NOT to follow the herd.
MORAL: Conditioning is NEVER absolute. We are not 100% at the mercy of external forces but can change.