The comic follows Ted, a boy who starts doing well in school after befriending smart students to gain their acceptance. Years later, Ted arrogantly decides not to study for a difficult technical job exam, believing he will pass it easily due to his past success. However, he fails the exam and blames its impossible difficulty. The comic explores psychological concepts like operant conditioning, motivation, social facilitation, confirmation bias, and optimistic bias.

1. a social psychology comic by :
Amos Tan
Jeffrey Liew
Lai Tze Xiuan
Lee Cze Shing

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

4. Primary Concepts
1. Operant Conditioning (Positive Punishment)
2. Motivation (Intrinsic & Extrinsic)
3. Social Facilitation
4. In-group Favouritism
5. Confirmation Bias
6. Optimistic Bias
7. Actor-Observer Bias

5. Operant Conditioning

7. In-Group Favouritism

9. Social Facilitation
& Motivation

11. Confirmation Bias

13. Optimistic Bias

15. Actor-Observer Bias

17. End