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- inactive, on 05/13/2009, -4/+87"The finding was that a third of people will ignore what they know to be true and go with a falsehood if they're in a group that insists on the falsehood being true."
So dont bother trying to argue with the religious. - BalancingAct, on 05/13/2009, -0/+67The Stanford Prison experiment is scary. I studied about it sometime ago at Uni. One theory suggests that the guards were merely playing out their stereotypical roles as guards and got too carried away through peer pressure, but why do the findings show that the guards were more likely to be sadistic when nobody else was looking?
- NaturalCauzes, on 05/13/2009, -3/+54So, in Conclusion, people suck.
- OrangeDot3083, on 05/12/2009, -12/+42Dugg on the hopes that it piss’s some scientologist off!
- Garofoli, on 05/13/2009, -1/+23http://www.cracked.com/article_16239_5-psychologic ... > This
- itsmikey, on 05/13/2009, -0/+20You are all definitely sheep, I am just not sure if Jesus is really the Shepherd.
- nonymous666, on 05/13/2009, -1/+20Or, "Nothing in an intro to psych course that the internet can't teach you."
- GalacticXenu, on 05/13/2009, -0/+17Pavlov didn't necessarily induce hunger, he induced salivation.
- Qumahlin, on 05/13/2009, -2/+18So when you email him he gets a screwdriver and starts tearing the thing apart in an attempt to open it?
Also that wouldn't be an example of Pavlov's experiment. The point of Pavlov's experiment was that he could actually induce hunger in the dogs by ringing the bell. In your example your friend is doing nothing but reacting to an alarm stimulus.
This would be like equating waking up to your alarm in the morning to Pavlov. The only thing they share in common is auditory stimulation. - GalacticXenu, on 05/13/2009, -3/+19"Why do you think God does not give all the Good power & money and sentence the Bad to be stoned?"
What god??? - gtrob, on 05/13/2009, -0/+15"Obviously the results of these experiments only apply to other people, not me, because I'm special." -Everyone
- legsmccoy, on 05/13/2009, -0/+14Dugg for the awesome picture of Dick Cheney.
- kanojo1969, on 05/13/2009, -2/+16Are you seriously suggesting that instead of spending 10 minutes reading an article on the net, we should enrol in a course because it covers the same ground? What is that, like 10 weeks or something?
I've been surfing youtube all day, and yet that's the dumbest thing I've read. Remarkable. - Clownmite, on 05/12/2009, -19/+33Nothing an intro to psych course can't teach you.
- BalancingAct, on 05/13/2009, -1/+13I was thinking that too.
What he has said contains some truth, but that one question by him that you quoted somehow makes the rest of what he has said seem less valid that it is. - joot2112, on 05/13/2009, -1/+13Buried in the hopes that someone learns what an apostrophe is for.
- inactive, on 05/13/2009, -1/+11Phillip Zimbardo is a great psychologist, I don't know what you've been smoking. He had a documentary series on PBS and he was like the Carl Sagan of psychology. Granted he looks like Satan, though. There are other studies that closely resemble it though, not sure why you don't think their are? There's even that famous "Third Wave" thing that a high school history teacher did -- basically turned a high school into a Nazi society.
Why does it matter that Zim-bo was boning one of his students? Thomas Jefferson ***** slaves, we still respect his theories of government, aye? - trussrules, on 05/13/2009, -0/+8Good list of many of the experiments that shaped the Institutional Review Board system we have today. Most (if not all) of these studies could never be conducted today.
On a separate note, the "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast and it's aftermath wasn't a psych experiment. - bmcnally, on 05/13/2009, -5/+11No Pavlov?
One of my friends is trained to wake up and open his iPhone if I send him an email. - SalmonGod, on 05/13/2009, -0/+6Anybody else notice that our competitive, authoritative, hierarchical society enables, encourages, or benefits from most of these tendencies?
Why are things still structured the way they are when we know better? - AndyStitzer, on 05/13/2009, -1/+7#3 Scares me
- Taft12, on 05/13/2009, -0/+6As I expected many of these are covered in introductory psychology courses (a major I might choose to pursue if I had to do the college thing all over again).
The mid-20th century was the renaissance of psychology - once a stronger set of ethical standards was adopted, truly sadistic experiments could no longer be conducted on unsuspecting subjects. An tremendous amount was learned about the human mind during this time - jafrankie, on 05/13/2009, -0/+5The study about the Bystander Effect in the case of Kitty Genovese was pretty important. How 30+ people were present while she was stabbed to death. Gave insight into diffusion of responsibility like in riots and mobs.
- mrpunman, on 05/13/2009, -0/+5#6 should scare you
The truth is swayed by our own words - PartyHearty, on 05/13/2009, -2/+7Great article. Very interesting, in particular the prisnor experiment.
- 8FoldPath, on 05/13/2009, -1/+6Generally. But we also have the potential to do great things.
- kh99, on 05/13/2009, -4/+9I'm not falling for that one...I say it's not informative.
- Grueslayer, on 05/13/2009, -0/+4There are FOUR lights!
- inactive, on 05/13/2009, -0/+4I'm not a psychologist, and I only studied psychology for a few classes, it's not my responsibility to know what other experiments have tested such things. It's a famous experiment, I am sure there were further proofs/disproofs of it attempted. If not, then psychologists should be ashamed of themselves.
I do work in the criminal justice system, though, and I most certainly lol'd at "A real prison has controls and separation of duty that prevents sadists from taking over the place." You should see some of the photos of inmates in StateHabes and Article 78 cases I process if you believe that one.
I'm not sure what your understandings of prisons are, but they are not fun places where things are orderly and people follow the rules all the time. In fact, they basically are a giant brewing riot. You know the famous chant "Attica! Attica!" That's from a prison riot in NY. Big one. Many dead. CO's are just trained on how to properly herd the inmates. The tensions run very very high in the joint, trust me. :-) - Kitarist, on 05/13/2009, -1/+4I was always interested in psychology and this article just made my day less boring for 5 minutes
- KingGorilla, on 05/13/2009, -1/+4wouldn't he do that normally?
- GalacticXenu, on 05/13/2009, -0/+3"This complicated economic experiment found that cooperative relationships between the bargainers are more beneficial to both parties than threats, either unilateral or bilateral. Not exactly a rousing endorsement of capitalistic winner-take-all competition, but in view of the current economic situation perhaps the results of this experiment should be kept in mind as we craft a recovery!"
Cooperative relationships between bargainers is exactly what capitalism is. Is the editorialism there really necessary? - N01SE, on 05/13/2009, -0/+3Digg community should pay special attention to #4
- Eorster, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2#6 in with practice can lead to some very interesting scenarios.
- xDynaBlade, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2Philip Zimbardo's prison experiment wasn't all that revealing, it just confirmed what we already knew: if given even an inkling power, people will use and abuse it just because they can.
Example: recently, a student in my class was given the responsibility of collecting everybody's course evaluation sheets. Not a big deal, right? She ran that ***** class like a slave driver. She turned into a huge bitch even with the simple responsibility of collecting a ***** paper. - katana2k, on 05/13/2009, -1/+3yeah why would i waste my time reading that short article when i could pay a thousand dollars to sit in a classroom for 12 weeks and learn the same thing?
- inactive, on 05/13/2009, -1/+3My great uncle was a graduate assistant under Sherif for the robbers cave study.
- inactive, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2EXCELLENT article - I recommend you read on Milgram in particular.
And if I may add... Not exactly an "experiment" but certainly worth reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_ca ... - maxtrix, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2There was a documentary made on the Stanford Prison Experiment
From Wiki:
In 1992, a documentary about the experiment was made available via the Stanford Prison Experiment website. The documentary, Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment, was written by Zimbardo and directed and produced by Ken Musen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKW_MzREPp4 - Tarkaan, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2Click through to the (Lord of the Flies) Robbers Cave Experiment at http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/social/s ... ... That one's amazing.
- tinyzorz, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2Thats really crazy for some of the things written..makes you think about things
- tref, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2dugg for the list being on a single page
- bipolarruledout, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2Yes. But I didn't need to read this article to find that out. This is one of the hidden dynamics which capitalists like to ignore. Perhaps it's best placed in the "luck" category.
The problem stems from the fact that most people DON'T know better. Don't assume that the best and brightest are the ones pulling the strings; they aren't. - Hobbes24, on 05/13/2009, -2/+4the stanford prison experiment probably shouldn't be on here...
it was so poorly conducted, with such strange methods, and directed by a man who was by no means "fully sane" (it was halted after the 6 days after one of the students begged him to stop, and it should be noted he was boning said student)
plus it's never been repeated, or even backed up in a meaningfull way by other studies.
many scientists think it was just a poorly conducted test that got the results, and not a portrait of the human mind - darthjure, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2Pennsylvania Dutch phrases aren't really hip on the internet. :)
- joot2112, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2Here are some less well known experiments:
http://viscog.beckman.illinois.edu/djs_lab/demos.h ...
Don't miss the videos of what they pulled off in the "Door study". - universalpants, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2I know this sounds a little weird and gross, but I've been conditioned to salivate when i brush my teeth. It's because sometimes in college I'm too lazy to go to the bathroom to get the toothbrush wet before brushing. So my mouth salivates extra and I don't even need water.
Now it happens whenever I put something in my mouth. I need to teach my girlfriend this trick. - cguwilliams, on 05/13/2009, -0/+2These studies can still be conducted. One need only turn to reality TV, where there exist no Institutional Review Boards.
- Jade10145, on 05/13/2009, -0/+1"In a test environment in which undergrads were asked to render a judgment after other subjects gave deliberately wrong answers, 50% of people gave the same wrong answer when their turn came. Only 25% of test subjects refused to be swayed by the false judgment of the others, while 5% always went with the crowd. The finding was that a third of people will ignore what they know to be true and go with a falsehood if they're in a group that insists on the falsehood being true. What else will people do under influence of the group?"
I believe this is called being a member of a political party. - cubs0110, on 05/13/2009, -0/+1I wish the font was bigger, I can't read a damn thing.
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