Familiar Ground

Have you heard about the Polar Bear question? That if you ask someone to not think of a Polar Bear, then it is almost impossible to not think of a Polar Bear?

Try it for 5 minutes. Go ahead. I’ll wait.

Did it work?

Did you know that the polar bear question was actually part of a psych study?

http://www.rice.edu/sallyport/2004/spring/whoswho/whitebear.html