I would expect the effectiveness of mockery in making people change their mind/behaviour to vary strongly based on who’s doing the mocking.
If I find myself being mocked by someone I have no particular respect for, no ongoing interaction with, or who I can judge doesn’t know what they’re talking about, that’s much easier to shrug off and deflect than if I’m being mocked by a peer or authority figure, or collectively mocked by a group I want to be part of.
Could be another source of discrepancy if “Does mockery work?” prompts people to imagine the first type where they try to mock a random stranger and the stranger doesn’t care; whereas asking “Have you ever changed in response to mockery” dredges up memories of the actually effective kind of mockery.
I would expect the effectiveness of mockery in making people change their mind/behaviour to vary strongly based on who’s doing the mocking.
If I find myself being mocked by someone I have no particular respect for, no ongoing interaction with, or who I can judge doesn’t know what they’re talking about, that’s much easier to shrug off and deflect than if I’m being mocked by a peer or authority figure, or collectively mocked by a group I want to be part of.
Could be another source of discrepancy if “Does mockery work?” prompts people to imagine the first type where they try to mock a random stranger and the stranger doesn’t care; whereas asking “Have you ever changed in response to mockery” dredges up memories of the actually effective kind of mockery.