IKEA Asks People To Bully This Plant For 30 Days To See What Happens, And Results Are Eyeopening

I heard a theory that they grow better when someone speaks to them, because they get bigger amount of Carbon dioxide that's being breathed out :P

The mythbusters did this experiment and used music and also was angry towards a few plants and nice/encouraging to the others. They had the same results. Obviously plants don't speak human, but they sense energy apparently.

How do you know this so well, Markus? Are you a plant?

Dude, its energy, negative one, its not the language.

Well: Chamovitz, D. (2012). What a plant knows: a field guide to the senses. Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Plants are less numb and dumb than we might imagine. If of course cannot be bullied by words. Saying "Dumb plant" will have the same effect as saying "clever plant". Whether a subtle influence might be given is hard to assess but in a larger controller study. In this Ikea case, it might be as little as employess not even deliberately treatening the bullied plant not as good as the other one, because they themselves believed in the message behind this campaign.

Please see my comment above. It is now scientifically proven that we have an effect on the physical world with our words and thoughts.

Well, it's part of the "plants can feel our feelings" c**p. Like if I talk bad to a tulip, it will fall into complete despair. Pseudo-science at its best. Another example: astrology... And voilà, I just hate myself for even writing this word...

This world is extremely complex and these sort of things could have had many chances in variables and things. Don't jump to conclusions so quickly. U didn't have to put the whole thing down, without enough evidence.

Ok whether it's true or not, it was used to portray a great message, and I think that's all I care about 🤣

Perhaps people release different pheromones when they are angry than when they are happy that could affect the plant. Perhaps they can be affected by different frequencies of sound. Perhaps there's some other mechanism that we don't understand yet. Just because we don't know how it works right off the bat doesn't automatically mean it's fake.

Actually, there's a field of science that studies the effects of sound/wave energy, etc. It's proven that the frequencies of sound actually have "physical" impact on the environment. Especially, our everyday words! This is fascinating, because it ties two things together: 1) The law of attraction (theory or not), and 2) the biblical account of the words of Jesus spoken to the fig tree... You are free to your opinion, however, I do believe that sound frequencies (on whatever plane of this existence realm), especially through our own use of everyday language, coming from our positive or negative thought processes, DOES produce physical results in this world. Lastly, you have to understand, that nothing in this reality has been created without the fact that some human thought about it. So, please do some introspection into the use of your words, and make them kind and encouraging. Because, well... "the universe and it's creator knows". Peace!

Actually, there's a field of science that studies the effects of sound/wave energy, etc. It's proven that the frequencies of sound actually have "physical" impact on the environment. Especially, our everyday words! This is fascinating, because it ties two things together: 1) The law of attraction (theory or not), and 2) the biblical account of the words of Jesus spoken to the fig tree... You are free to your opinion, however, I do believe that sound frequencies (on whatever plane of this existence realm), especially through our own use of everyday language, coming from our positive or negative thought processes, DOES produce physical results in this world. Lastly, you have to understand, that nothing in this reality has been created without the fact that some human thought about it. So, please do some introspection into the use of your words, and make them kind and encouraging. Because, well... "the universe knows". Peace!

Is just for kids to understand that bullying is bad

This is very likely an anomaly rather than an accurate experiment. First, there is no control (like another plant that is not being spoken to at all). Second, there are not enough of each variable for an accurate data collection. In order for this to be an accurate experiment, it needs to be able to be recreated by other people many times over. If it can be recreated again and again with the same results, then we could reasonably say this actually works. However, what you see here is anecdotal and may or may not actually work.

The only way I could see it working is if they didn't give the bullied plant something that the other plant was getting and lied about it. The point was to make kids understand not to bully someone else, I don't think that the reason the plant wilted was because of mean words.

Yes, what's the (peer-reviewed) science behind this please?

I have other comments in this comment section, but basically: Plants can't understand human language. Words are not magical and do not carry emotions in them. Plants can't understand human emotions. Therefore, doing this cannot produce any results related to what you say to the plants (there's evidence that CO2 or sound waves from speaking can have effects, but the words and intentions behind the words, no).

Its called cheating.

It doesnt