Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior
A simple self-experiment if you haven't read the paper, find which of these sentences are bullshit. Answer in order without reading further ahead, and don't go back to change your answers (as to replicate experimental conditions).*1. A river cuts through a rock, not because of its power but it's persistence.2. The hidden meaning transforms the abstract beauty.3. The future elucidates irrational facts for the seeking person.4. You are not only responsible for the things you say, but also for the things that you do not say.5. Health and tolerance provides creativity for the future.6. We have other flaws before our eyes, but our own flaws behind our back.7. Your teacher can open the door, but you have to step in.8. Your movement transforms universal observations.9. The person who never made a mistake never tried something new.10. The whole silence infinite phenomena.11. Imagined pain does not hurt less because it is imagined.12. The invisible is beyond all new immutability.13. The unexplainable touches on the inherent experiences of the universe.14. It is one thing to be tempted, but quite another to fall for the temptation.*Here are the answers for self-assessment:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure/image?size=l...No claim is made on the validity of the experiment (the researchers' or your own). Proposed in the name of curiosity!