Efficacy calculation works only when actors forget they calculated

Evidence

This is an unusual kind of calculation that works only when actors can forget they did the calculation. Instead of calculating individually, volunteers relied on a culturally standard, automatic second nature that taught them how to translate feelings of impotence into feelings of e¤cacy. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 44

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mediated action hides outcomes from the actors who commission it — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 98; Behavioral modification works best when targets stay unaware — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 962; Behavioral data collection succeeded only when conducted without subjects’ awareness — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1352

Broader Connections

• Behavioral modification works best when targets stay unaware #exemplifies (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 962
• Behavioral data collection succeeded only when conducted without subjects’ awareness #exemplifies (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1352
• Mediated action hides outcomes from the actors who commission it #qualifies (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 98