Creepy Experiements...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_study

...found about this whilst doing a Psychology A-Level. Completely batshit insane.
(paddysawyers music whore, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 13:04, 5 replies)

Yeah they tried to recreate this a couple of years ago for television.
It was bloody crap because all the guards were allowed to do was naughty-step the prisoners, so the dynamic wasn't constructed.

But fascinating stuff, isn't it?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 13:08, closed)

I love reading about things like this
also The Milgram Experiment
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 8 Apr 2011, 13:21, closed)

Have a look
at some of the follow up experiments to Milgram's appeal to authority. Some suggested that because people couldn't see the victim they didn't really believe they were hurting anyone. So, it was tried with puppies and electrodes. Results surprisingly similar to Stanley Milgram's. You'd think you wouldn't electrocute a puppy if asked to, but the evidence would suggest you're wrong. 13 men and 13 women took part. 20 out of the 26 completed the experiment. The six that didn't were all men.

I want to know where they found 13 women who all did what they were told, I haven't found a single one yet! Maybe I should be asking them to hurt animals rather than just shut up and suck it?
(robbersdog, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 15:56, closed)

Bloody hell these things never quite go away, do they?
Several years ago we used to have team building days at work twice a year. Deb L who was as mad as a cut snake as I later found out wanted us to do something like that as an "anti racism / anti sexism" exercise and she had a couple of others backing her up. A few of us told the boss that we point blank refused to have anything to do with it. I don't know how far she got with it but she was used to getting her way. This time she didn't.
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Fri 8 Apr 2011, 15:20, closed)

saw a movie along the same lines
called Das Experiment, it was about a group of people who had been chosen to be ginea pigs for a maximum security prison. Was interesting to say the least.
( RossThePiper Stretch Armstrong is my Father, Thu 14 Apr 2011, 0:37, closed)