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- thereisnostate, on 05/06/2008, -2/+278Spending a few minutes chatting with people online is enough to tell you that humanity is doomed.
- rationalist, on 05/06/2008, -1/+166So much is written about, and so much research is conducted about, those who behaved badly in these experiments. I've always wondered why we don't spend more time studying those who refused to shock the "subjects" in the Milgram Experiment and refused to harm others in the other experiments, who did stop for those in need, etc.
We could, and should, learn more about what makes some of us behave best even under the most trying circumstances - rather than obsess about what makes us behave worst. Perhaps these best behaviors are learnable. We should certainly find out. - Shiftgood, on 05/06/2008, -10/+12832% conformed to the rest of the group even when the answer was wrong...
*checks bush's approval rating - inactive, on 05/06/2008, -5/+111Digg is probably the best contemporary example of groupthink at work that I can think of
- jakash, on 05/06/2008, -8/+113Brilliant article, finished nicely and really made me think... we on Digg are no different...
Why does every XKCD comic or cracked.com article get so many Diggs (even the bad comics)?
Its the same principle as The Asch Conformity Experiment... we see people like XKCD and we Digg aswell, even if that particular day it was crap - fitqueenb, on 05/06/2008, -8/+107Well, what can I say, kinda speechless for this minute
- kipmartin, on 05/06/2008, -1/+83humanity has been 'doomed' for over 150,000 years.
aren't we still just apes looking for food and sex, avoiding predators, and collecting shiney things? - purag66, on 05/13/2009, -4/+81It's even worse in America, where if you try to help someone, but accidentally end up doing more damage, you can get sued.
- bc289, on 05/06/2008, -0/+74I walk by the room that the milgram study was performed in every once in awhile. It's a little creepy.
- Velvolver, on 05/06/2008, -27/+92I love things like this, like bystandard effect and the Stanford Prison Experiment. Just goes to show you how close we are to insects than we think.
I think that's the strongest arguement for evolution over anything. - inactive, on 05/06/2008, -0/+53The picture of the little white dog made me laugh for some reason. I think it is the way it just suddenly showed up unexpectedly in that pedo bear ascii kinda way.
- Pimpalicious316, on 05/06/2008, -0/+48not always true. we have Good Samaritan laws that protect you in the case of assisting someone else who is in danger or injured.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law - inactive, on 05/06/2008, -3/+44Well, reading it over a second time just to be sure, yeah, I'd have to agree with you. Your post is pretty ***** ignorant.
- rubberbrush, on 05/06/2008, -5/+45The best way to protect people from their more base instincts is education. Now that you know about these things, you will be less likely to fall victim to them.
- ogmak, on 05/06/2008, -2/+41Man, i just finished a social psychcology, and all 5 of these experiments were on it... (sigh, the things we do to gain acceptance in the world...)
- bgrah449, on 05/06/2008, -2/+40Eh, doomed? These phenomena have been part of what it's meant to be human since ever, since humans existed - but look at us now, with our extended life expectancies, our ridiculously low infant mortality rates (relative to historical rates), and a significant portion of the globe having essentially "solved" famine and starvation. I'd be more interested in a follow-up list, "5 Ways Humans Have Overcome Their Crippling Flaws."
- aenima987, on 05/06/2008, -0/+36i agree
- chuckDontSurf, on 05/06/2008, -0/+34Now I'm conflicted over whether or not to digg your comment.
- jggr, on 05/06/2008, -3/+35B.S. meter is off the charts on this one boys and girls.
- AngelDragon, on 05/06/2008, -2/+33Loved the V for Vendetta punch image .
- Scottamus, on 05/06/2008, -0/+26me too!
- imikedaman, on 05/06/2008, -1/+26A 404 page? Way to stick the knife in further... :(
- WarMachineWCLH, on 05/06/2008, -1/+26Completely random thought, did the picture of the puppy remind anyone else of the flying dragon thing from The Neverending Story?
- ogmak, on 05/06/2008, -3/+27...social psychology FINAL...sry bout that.
- renagadex2, on 05/06/2008, -6/+28hahahahahah thats so many kinds of ridiculous
- Chunken, on 05/06/2008, -0/+20#5 supports my theory that when it comes to voting many people vote for who they think is going to win instead of who they want to win.
- dunnylovehun, on 05/06/2008, -5/+24Replace "cracked.com article" with Pro Obama /Anti-Clinton story and you've sold me.
- Evermin7, on 05/06/2008, -5/+24Solution: Think for yourself and realize that you are free. Do not submit to a rule that you think is unjust.
- elamr, on 05/06/2008, -1/+20These days you can barely help a kid for fear of being accused of something terrible.
- fear makes people do (or not do) crazy things. And we've become fearbased. - bgrah449, on 05/06/2008, -2/+21Not the article - Velvolver's post that the Stanford Prison Experiment "just goes to show you how close we are to insects than we think." I also dispute that assertion's strength as an "arguement" for evolution.
- jehan60188, on 05/06/2008, -1/+19See, it's people like you, and that puppy-shock experiment that caused global warming to make it so that Ron Paul lost the republican nomination!
- Kindjal, on 05/06/2008, -0/+17I worked in a Hospital emergency room and on an ambulance during my civil service time. The first thing you learn is to counter the bystander effect. In some situations you can not handle all injured at once or need help from bystanders. You have 2 options.
1. "Someone please help me do this or that" - it can take ages until someone responds
2. "You sir in the red shirt with the glasses, come here and hold this" - works 99% of the time.
If you address someone directly he will help because then another effect sets in, if he does not help the pressure of not helping in front of the other bystanders will push him to do it. Always remember this if you get injured, do not shout for help. Address someone directly and you get help almost immediately. - bgrah449, on 05/06/2008, -6/+23How is this getting dugg up? It's an admission from a psych student that he wants to conduct unethical human experimentation, but keeps it a secret, except to the Internet? WTF?
- futureisours, on 05/06/2008, -0/+16The good thing is that some people can change their inbuilt programming (sorry if I'm sounding like a nutso scientologist, I'm not), by reading these and then deciding to do the right thing if they're put in a similar situation. Maybe I'm an optimist, but I believe you can make yourself be a better person.
- drinkdrankdrunk, on 05/06/2008, -1/+17This was the first month of my social psych class. After finishing the class I can honestly say that 90 percent of our behavior has been broken down by experiments like these....and i still don't feel doomed as a species, but better understood.
- TheShad0w, on 05/06/2008, -0/+15Its hard to place ones self into any of these situations and clearly and accurately describe what any of us would do. Until you're placed into such a situation all anyone can do is speculate. But it is also important to remember that the world is split up into leaders and followers. The unfortunate truth is that a vast majority of the human population are followers. These tests highlighted the worst of human nature and only reinforced that many of these people aren't leaders. But lets not forget that 5-15%. Those people who are willing to stand up for themselves and be the leaders that the rest need. Those are usually the individuals that represent the potential of greatness that exists within humanity. So yes this article and those tests do shine quite a grim and disparaging view of humanity but its not the nail in the coffin. Humanity can improve so long as we work to improve it.
- RetiredExplorer, on 05/06/2008, -0/+15Everyone else is doing it.
- kingmanic, on 05/06/2008, -0/+15You are aware most people in lab coats would have some difficulty and a distinct disinclination to beat the ***** out of you? I'd be more afraid if it was a military setting and there was an abrasive roid monster Sargent giving me the orders.
- jakash, on 05/06/2008, -0/+15Sweet! I have to get myself a lab coat so I can brainwash people to do stuff... and not get the blame...
- chuckDontSurf, on 05/06/2008, -0/+14Will we? Didn't you read the Good Samaritan experiment?
- PhantomRogue, on 05/06/2008, -2/+16They are instincts for a reason. They tend to let you live longer. You attempt to help someone getting beat down by someone else... chances are you are thinking, "That guy is going to come after me next if i try to step in..." Instinct to stay alive is what all of these experiments show. We want to sustain our lives as long as possible. Even if we don't morally agree with the norm, people will keep adhering to it in the hopes that they can just run fast enough to outrun the slowest.
- 2012, on 05/06/2008, -0/+13I have been wondering if MrBabyMan has a job. If he does have a job, does his employer know that he submits stories to Digg 24 hours a day? I have had comments dugg down too. But I noticed, like you, that once the downward spiral starts, it keeps going and going and going...
- MiDri, on 05/06/2008, -1/+14I got this collecting shiny things down to an art, MUD BALLS!
- theshizzler, on 05/06/2008, -0/+13a/s/l?
- JustLoren, on 05/06/2008, -0/+12I think survival instinct was what made the prison guards take away the prisoner's bathroom rights.
/sarcasm - norman619, on 05/06/2008, -2/+14Humans haven't changed much if at all. Only difference between caveman and modern man is our knowledge. The internal wiring and plumbing is virtually the same. Many people love the believe we have "evolved" so much since our caveman/hunter-gatherer days but in reality we are the same. We humans may love to try and fix things are aren't broken but nature doesn't work that way.
- Scira, on 05/06/2008, -0/+12I was really expecting a pedobear ASCII to be replied with, strange how things work.
- Jassman, on 05/06/2008, -5/+17Young earth creationism is a lot more popular than you think. This fact is one of the more surprising things that I've learned in the last few years.
- Herostratos, on 05/06/2008, -0/+12In a novel, Aksel Sandemose (you've probably not heard of him if you live outside of Scandinavia) writes that the devil is most certainly not evil... The devil is stupid. Mindnumbingly stupid. And experiments like this prove him true. It is when people cease thinking, when people stop reflecting over what they are actually doing and just go along with authority/the flock that horrible crimes are committed.
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