Introduction to ArtificiaI Intelligence in Higher Education
Ted's social psychology comic: How group acceptance affects motivation
1. a social psychology comic by :
Amos Tan
Jeffrey Liew
Lai Tze Xiuan
Lee Cze Shing
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3. Synopsis
The comic stars Ted as a young boy who kept failing
his tests. During a parent teacher meeting, Ted was
asked to make friends with a group of smart kids.
Pressured by them, Ted made great improvements in
order to seek acceptance by the group. His
improvements were praised as he became arrogantly
smart, and actively seeks to reinforce that belief.
Years later, Ted seeks for a job after graduating.
He applies for a very hard technical job at a
nuclear plant, and arrogantly decides to not study,
believing that he will not fail. While waiting for
his turn, another applicant stumbles out and says
that the test is insanely hard. Ted rudely claims
that he was just being lazy, and that he would do
much better. Minutes later, he walks out screaming
in anger, blaming that the test was impossible to