Derren Brown - Person Swap
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- First half is from "Mind Control," S01E02. Second half is from "Trick of the Mind," S03E04.
You can be fooled no matter how smart you think you are. Don't think you can be fooled? Just watch this video: • The Colour Changing Ca...
The face at 3:03 is just an editing error. I did not intend for a subliminal message.
Aww, that guy who wanted to walk him there and actually noticed the two were different? He's great!
Probably cos he was focused on the person, and took a good look rather than just at the map.
I think some people noticed the swap but deliberately ignored it because they didn't know how to deal with it.
Exactly! they shouldve interviewed them afterwards.
Yeah, how many were thinking "Man, I need to get more sleep, I'm losing it here!"
That's a very good point I would love to have seen an interview. But it would have to be done very carefully without revealing to them simply by the asking
Like the guy at 1:53 "what?!" and then maybe thought his mind tricked him. Ha ha
It's possible but this study is repeatable in more professional settings. So I think there's at least some legitimacy to it.
I must say, this video has definitely made me way more skeptical about the value of eye witnesses in a criminal case, particularly when it comes to identifying someone in court 2 weeks later as the criminal.
I’m a psych student and eye witnesses are incredibly unreliable. Learned a ton about it in numerous classes.
You'll notice that the old woman did notice, which implies the distraction of the map is a significant part of it.
Of course, that's the point! They're not suggesting that if someone transformed in front of your eyes you wouldn't notice. The point is, if you're not really paying attention because you're distracted by something else, fairly major changes can occur without you noticing.
robotpanda77 the black guy noticed too
I've analysed this extensively and I have realised that it is much easier to spot the change when a) you know there is an experiment going on, and b) you are watching it on youtube and you can see what's happening behind the painting.
"I could have sworn it was another guy"
LOLLLLL SO CLOSE MAN.
That's what she said last sunday morning. 😋
@@adrianapollyon5087 your mom?
Some stranger actually did this to me once. I will share my experience. A guy came up to me and said he was asking around for people to take a survey. So he gave me a sheet of paper with a couple of questions. It was wrinkly af like no joke. I thought it was a little strange, but I wanted to get it over with as quick as possible. Then as I looked up I noticed a slight change of appearance, but it didn't occur to me that it was important enough to point out. These guys had the same skin tone and clothes. They revealed to me that it was part of a psychology experiment and I felt like a complete dunce for not pointing it out. In my experience it's not a matter of self awareness, I just didn't really care enough to pay attention to a persons physical features. I was in a hurry and the last thing I cared about was how the person looked. It's just not on your mind. I let them use the video of me for their class, but regret it to this day knowing that I'm made a fool of and its on video.
Yeah I think that's the point, right? I heard about this in a psychology class on cognition/attention and it was when we were talking about how you tune out/filter certain things so you can focus on what's important, etc. So it's not that people are stupid, but in order to quickly assimilate the info and act on it (the impt stuff), other things might get left out, like features of a stranger's face, etc.
Doesn't explain how he becomes she sorry but many people really are stupid.
Thanks for sharing!
I wonder how many people noticed but didn't say anything out of fear of offending that person. For instance, when he switched with the girl, if they were to say "I swear you were a guy" had she been there the entire time she might be offended by that.
People are so worried about offending each other that they let it get in the way. Offense is subjective. You can't control what someone else will be offended by, so don't worry about it.
Abocreature 😂😂
Abocreature I wonder if they switched more than once if they would notice. I wonder d they switched from a regular woman to a pregnant woman if they would notice.
The reaction when the old women told her what just happened was awesome.
Yeah this prank is brilliant but there is a minor problem with it. I bet a lot of these people do realize that the person switched but didn't know how that would be possible/thought they were crazy so they didnt say anything. I'm just saying I feel like this is a possibility because if this happened to me and they literally switched a person from a man to a woman or from a white guy to a black guy in the blink of an eye like that, I would think I had lost my fucking mind and was going crazy and wouldn't say anything because I would think they would be like "I'm the same guy... need to know where the mental hospital is?" lol
tankmaster1018 This was my thoughts exactly, however a lot of their faces don't even show alarms are going off.
tankmaster1018 True!!
tankmaster1018 the black guy was the only one noticed. Black people are very aware.
tankmaster1018 I think if they switched the person at least 3 tines then they would notice.
I have to agree with you there. It's kinda like hindsight bias in that way however, because if you didn't know this study existed you would be a lot more likely to fall for it. That being said, I think I pay pretty close attention to people in random encounters; and I would probably end up in the 50% that doesn't fall for it just because I know it exists.
Love the guy at two minutes. He had the moment of offering to guide Darren, so it was easier for him to spot the change- But he just shrugged it off and continued helping a lost stranger.
Well, glad my uploaded video helped a psych class. :)
My class and I conducted this same experiment while learning about change blindness and about 70% of the time the change went completely unnoticed (especially when the people switching looked similar and dressed approximately the same). Granted we couldn't get a cross-gender or cross-racial switch to work but for the most part besides that it did. This is legit guys.
I like that the one person who noticed the swap was also the guy who gave the best directions and was willing to put the most effort in to help.
Shouldn't have second-guessed yourself, man! Whoever you are, you're doing it right.
"...I could have sworn it was an other guy..." *continues providing directions*
That made me lol
People just want to help. They don't pay atention in faces. "ain't nobody got time for dat"
Israel Rojas 😂 lol
I've done this with callers to my business where my female cousin and I answer the phone at the same time and we take turns answering the questions. No one has ever noticed.
That's so funny :D
Hilarious xD
I cant belive they did not notice when he became she XD
He took gender fluidity to a whole new level
Or when he turned black hahaha
jhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and when the white became black hhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I love the commenters who think their brains are above such trickeries. We all have human brains
That explains how dumb everyone here is... THE BRAIN.
That last one. Awesome.
+Sun Shine actually, it's not a brain mechanism that makes you forget what the person looks like do to the portrait per se. It's a brain mechanism called inattentional blindness or change blindness. you can not process so many observations at once, so they are paying attention to the helping the person, the map, or the church because it is the most important at the moment.
yep!
@Sphere Sword Derren Brown always shows his most successful attempts but he doesn't fake them. This particular effect is easy to demonstrate in the lab. That being said, I'd never take a Derren Brown segment as the average or expected outcome, more a showcase of what it's _possible_ to get away with.
I didn't notice the swapping in the beginning until he said what was going on
This is known as perceptual blindness. It comes in many forms, and they all center around distractions in attention. As long as you can heavily grab someone's attention, then you can fool them with just about anything that has to deal with their perception of things. This is why in the examples with more than one person, the second person that wasn't entangled in trying to explain the directions noticed the change.
1:53 "I could sworn it was another guy" He caught on!
damn the music makes me want to watch always sunnny
Reminds me of 1984 (the novel). An obvious change is made, but it doesn't make sense, so your brain just subconsciously accepts it. Especially with the change from male to female. A part of you must have known it happened, but it's 'impossible' so you have no choice but to accept it. Amazing.
I saw a video just like this for my psych class at uni, you're right, people notice something is off but just completely ignore it and assume that they are wrong.
it's incredible when he switche for the asian-looking woman, how do you not notice that? mind-blowing. i loved it, too, when the white-haired lady was explaining to the younger lady that she just got tricked and the younger whirls around like "wha?!"
ROFL, this is fcking great, at first i didnt notice even watching it on the video :D
I'm wondering, were there any people who DID notice, and did they edit it out.
Serious, I'm sure some one noticed.
peace
they showed a guy who did notice at 1:55
Did you not notice the guy who noticed 1:55
Connie Reed He noticed,but his brain tells him he's wrong and he was talking to the same guy the whole time.
Looking at the positive here. what this proves is that people are inherently willing to be helpful without passing judgment or even caring about the race, gender or color or the person they are helping.
The ends of each of the scenes were brilliant!!
1:53 Mindfucked
SenseiDenax black people notice
What face pops up just after 3:00 ?
LOL how creepy!!
LMAAOO IS THERE EVER GOING TO BE SOME1 AS AWESOME AS DERREN BROWN??
A similar "experiment" happened to me near the Louvre. And after staring at the map and trying to help with directions, I noticed some swapping happened - not the group of youngsters asking for help but my wallet.
1:22 At this second the bald man looks like Johnny Sins, a famous porn actor
I thought the same thing 😂
As with "Candid Camera", etc., you never know if they're just playing along with the gag.
The ending is the BEST!!
This is fantastic! Saw it in my Psych. class.
The porter insisting to cut them through made me laugh so hard even with knowing that it's an experiment
Faltan vídeos de magias tan reales como lo es éste. Buen fenómeno psicológico llevado a la práctica.
I think part of it is also the face that his face is on the poster as seen by the person giving directions. When it reveals the new person, their brain rationalizes that the face that was just in their mind was from the poster, not the person they were just talking to, since obviously that's not what the looked like!
1:35 i loved that guy he's so nice!
This is great!
The psychological vocabulary term is "selective attention." Because they are focused on the map and giving directions, they do not notice the change person.
This study was originally done in 1998 and they used a door. The painting is just to elaborate the fact that the "Helpers" aren't noticing the switch. Just another bit of knowledge I've gained from VSAUCE! /cheer!
I like how that one guy noticed.
He concentrated on the person, not the map when he asked "You want me to take you over there" or whatever
Not only did they not notice they were speaking to a completely different person, but they also didn't seem to notice that the man who stopped them to ask for directions was STARING THEM IN THE FACE FROM THE PAINTING xD
The music makes this feel like an Always Sunny scheme
one of the guys noticed but only because he was paying more attention and he didn't move his sight away!!! amazing!!!
That is a brain mechanism in which the person simply forgets what he was thinking earlier due to the portrait passing by(it's similar to when you walk into a room or open a refrigerator and forget what you went there for), which explains how people were so easily fooled.
Look at that first glance the girl gives Derren when he asks her the directions. Definitely in to him.
Being able to notice a difference in races isnt being racist. We embrace our differences. Its good that we see our differences, We arent all the same and we shouldnt pretend we are
This is one of those things where I think "oh, I'd see right through that. That would never fool me" yet would be fooled by if it actually happened to me...even after seeing this video.
The mind works in some strange yet rational ways.
It is not about change in physical appearance. It will be successful as long as the rapport isn't broken.
there have been tests about that as well, in which people got a statement, those that agreed to it were asked to provide arguments for it, only minutes later the wording got slightly changed for the statement to mean the opposite, now people argued for the opposite without noticing a change
He actually acknowledged the person and offered to take him there which is why he was aware when it changed. The rest of us try very little to acknowledge other human beings. :)
this is epic, this is one reason why i don't give much(if any) weight to personal experiences as evidence to something.
rapid induction plus power of suggestion
hypnosis is real and you can hypnotize people very quickly but they must be willing and able to respond to the hypnosis.
As a straight male, that is a change in detail I am immediately willing to accept and will not act as if something has been bothered. I would always rather someone I came across was a young Asian woman, I'm likely to assume the universe has finally answered me than to fault it on a change blindness study.
I wouldn't have thought much of Derren Brown asking me something, but that last guy was HOT and I sure would have noticed the difference. I think most people got fooled because he pretty much kept his head down and used the map almost like a shield. Still a very good trick indeed.
“The Gang Messes With Our Heads”
We aren't nearly as aware as we believe we are.
it had to do with the guys personality, he was very personable. he even offered to walk Derren there. others just brushed him off as a stranger.
That is eerie, imgine how many things we miss every day
Agreed, it is shown when the old lady points out to the subject that it was another person. She was looking at the guy not the map.
Some of this is just too amazing.
I love how they use a painting of Derren Brown when they switch off.
I think the reason why people think their still talking to the same person is that he or she just continue with the conversation and letting them focus on the map instead on who their talking to. The painting could have been blank, it's just there for the distraction. When the swap has been completed the person is trying to regain their focus on the conversation.
It's a Psychological thing called Change Blindness. More than 75% of people don't notice major changes. It has something to do with how we see the world around us and how we perceive it.
I would say they're using the visual aspect of their short-term memory to visualise the route Derren should take and this displaces the information about what he looks like.
I wonder if these people are aware of the change, but since it's so unbelievable, they just brush it off as "I must be imagining it."
it's always sunny in philadelphia music!
This is psychology for you. People don't care the specifics of anything if it does not change the function that object if performing. People didn't really notice the swap because their brain didn't care. The person was still a person asking directions and that is all the brain cares about: the function.
4:10 a nod to Paul McCartney there 😂
It called change blindness. If you see a picture, then look at something and look back, if you weren't aware of the change occurring, your brain thinks it's the original.
You guys can say what you want about not falling for it, but if you were in a city with a schedule and also on the way to someplace and thinking exclusively about something else, someone asking you for directions would barely pass through your mind, and the person asking you wouldn't even be something you would care to register. Think about where these peoples' minds are when it happens, and it makes sense that they pay *zero* attention to who's asking. Their attention is elsewhere.
Look up, Change Blindness, google it or whatever.
It's awkwardly surprising, but remember these people are more focused on the traveling and map then they are the person.
exactly. as long as you don't realize this kind of things is possible, it's really hard to see it.
that and the person has to be someone you're not too interested in. try to swap a hot girl with an average-looking one in front of a guy and there's a good chance he'd notice.
Funnily enough this was proved to be true to 75% of the population
and thusly, it is proven that most people are legit NPC's (?)
I realize the majority of people are fooled by it, but 1:56 makes it clear that not EVERYbody is. I am an artist and I have a tendency to look at my surroundings and pay attention to things like facial features and voice and hair so that I can use them on a later date in artwork. If the replacing person were very similar, I think even then I would notice, but just shrug it off after a few seconds as a mistake. (don't enough space to explain, but someone's voice can be helpful in artwork too)
I loved when he switched with a women and the black guy. The trick is to have them focus on the map. When the brain is focused on one thing, they'll just not see others.
Im absolutely fascinated by this
a picture of DERREN is what was passing by people, and they could and did all see it. so as the new person came into their view, the last image they had of derren was him as a picture - so the brain has an easy reason to believe...well, figure it out yourself.
this is incredible
It's part that the brain chooses not to ppay attention, and also it's part that the brain also fills in missing data if it needs to: like if a ball is thrown across, behind a barrier, we automatically think of the path the ball takes behind it, predicting where it'll come out. The brain, seeign "something" in the predicted path, assumes it was correct, and carries on, focused on directions and maps.
This has a lot to do with top-down vs bottom-up processing. Look it up.
Hahahaha, this is seriously the funniest thing I have ever seen. It's brilliant! :D
Most of people probably notice but don't wanna bring up the awkwardness of a different person.
@fisksallad In the actual experiment that this video is based on, they ask people after the encounter if they had noticed anything strange. I forgot what the actual numbers are, but even after being asked directly "Did you notice that I am not the same person who asked for directions?" a majority of the people answered "No."
it's not just that. People on the street giving some stranger directions don't pay attention to who they're talking to, plus they probably couldn't recall the person's face a minute later if prompted to.
@hotice619 I think it had mostly to do with what was actually on the giant portrait of Derren. They probably thought in some subconscious way "Oh I must be confused with the portrait, this guy in front of me must be the person I was talking to."
but I am just guessing.
Yes but even so, it's more about the point that they weren't observing or noting facts of reality closely enough to stand by their emotion/feeling that something just changed. If you looked at your hand and it was suddenly a different skin colour, you would go "okay wtf" not "oh, okay, I guess I've always been black, but I could have sworn I was white"... but in this instance, their observation of him as a person isn't solidified enough due to distraction. So they may notice, but not confidently
That's crazy...Sadly, I doubt this is fake.
I love you, Cracked.
Maybe the participants noticed but didn't spoke as that would make them sound a bit insane
And so then it becomes more about the notion that you could swap just glaring facts as the person standing in front of you, given the right context - regardless of whether they notice, which of course on some level they always do; the point is they won't question it and as you say - will rationalize it, so either way, they accept they were wrong in their observation rather than something truly just changing. So observation can be fleeting, and manipulated.
It's possible they were just like they just didn't really care, at least for the first one
I think many people do notice but aren't sure if they are being decieved or have decieved themselves. Guy at 1:38 wasn't scared to ask though.
Most people assuming they're not on a TV show don't want to feel stupid by asking questions like "didn't somebody else ask me for directions?".
That video CRACKED me up. Especially the dude turning into the chick and the woman not noticing