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Studies* show that a person can increase their likeability by placing themselves in exciting situations.
Situations where emotional arousal is high lead to you feel more excited, and thus are more likely to respond to the things around you as being exciting as well.
Also, it is very hard to pinpoint
the source of a good feeling, so even though our attitude toward a person can be affected by outside stimulus, we would feel confident that it really is the person we like.
This is a neat piece of information in itself, but we cant stage all out interactions at parties or concerts, or other venues where emotional arousal is high, so what could we do to make ourselves more interesting?
My offering is beige noise.
You probably already know that there are "brown" noises that produce psychological disturbances, and you probably already know there are dull, white noises that help you tune out the noise around you, and even similar noises that cannot even be perceived by the human ear on a conscious level. I realise all the noises I have described are totally different animals, but figuratively speaking; the idea is to find a sound that is not too hot, not to cold, but jusssst right.
My idea is to find a noise that is a midpoint in the spectrum somewhere, that would not be consciously heard, but would be perceived as somewhat exciting to the human ear, but not so exciting that you crap yourself or feel stressed. This noise could then be put on a recordable device and played on your person throughout the day, and regardless of where you are, or the content of your messages, everyone you come across would feel slightly excited around you without knowing why, and would thereby find you to be more exciting than you actually are.
Besides being able to make everything you say or do instantly more exciting; by playing the tape all the time you might begin to feel as if you actually are more exciting, or at least that you live a more exciting life than you did before, any your elevated mood would probably lead to you becoming someone who is genuinely more fun to be around.
*The experiment and effects of excitement on ones decision making process can be seen on page 8 of Kevin Hogan's book; the Science of Influence. I dont want to get into thw details here however, because it takes away from my own brilliance.
However, even if you are not swayed by the formentioned study, its generally accepted that emotions influence our attitudes toward things and people.
The "QC Factor" (bottom of the page)
http://www.wired.co...4&topic=&topic_set=
Inspired, I managed to track down a copy of the article. In Wired, not C+D. Hmm... [5th Earth, Jan 13 2006]
Brown Noise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_noise
What's tha...Euw! [Dub, Jan 14 2006]
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I am fortunate enough to have an
exciting personality, so I think what I
need is theme music like Darth Vader,
only something cheery so that people
would be dancing when I arrived. I
think this is a good idea, though for
people who may be shy. |
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"Here comes Bod."
...and cue music. |
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White noise and "brown noise" have totally different properties. White noise is totally random sound waves--literally, all frequencies played simultaneously. "Brown noise", according to most descriptions of the sound, consists of a single very low frequency. Thus it is essentially meaningless to speak of a noise somewhere between the two--they are fundamentally qualitatively different. |
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As a side note, is has been expirimentally suggested, though not scientifically proven AFAIK, that certain ultralow frequency sound waves can induce spontaneous female orgasm. |
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As another side note, studies that I can't remember right now have suggested that the sound of the hum of a computer fan can create the urge to post unsubstantiated claims on the internet. |
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I call BS on the orgasm thing unless the low frequency is deliver via a rod-like speaker directly to the target. |
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I was wondering why you sold all those big speaker cabinets. |
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I just wanted to call attention to the revisions I just made; the first clairifies that I don't literally mean a mix of brown and white noise, I am a lazy researcher and who knows most would people actually prefer lay terms to details the couldnt understand* |
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Secondly, at the bottom of my idea I have cited the source of my findings. |
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*actually I just made this fact up right now, but I will look for evidence that supports it if need be. |
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I never said I believed the orgasm thing. I'm only stating something I heard once, from people who claimed they had personally produced this effect (and it wasn't on the internet--it was a tongue-in-cheek article in Car and Driver magazine about the loudest car stereo in the world). I thought it might be amusing in this context. No need to get snippy. |
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I keep reading this as "Beige Nose". |
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ha - so did i. a fishbone for not being such |
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Which is, presumably, a milder version of brown nose. |
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//"Brown noise", according to most descriptions of the sound, consists of a single very low frequency.//
//So what is pink noise?//
Pink noise is white noise with the high frequencies attenuated, while brown noise is even more so. It's not a single frequency. |
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I just wanted to note that the research related to I excitments effecta of love is a part of this months National Geographic. I cant remember the page, but its in thecover story regarding love. |
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Why don't you just have a funky bass player follow you around? I'd hang out with you if you had wicked bass notes pumping out all the time. |
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