http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlUkzfITiSs
Holy smokes, crazy movie, excellent and so easy to see how this could happen.
Holy smokes, crazy movie, excellent and so easy to see how this could happen.
The Experiment
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Yeah interesting story based on real life experiments in the 60s or maybe 70s.
This is not the first version of this movie. Think there's a foreign version. Seems that's the way hollywood goes these days.
But yeah I agree give some guys a little power and they get carried away.
This is not the first version of this movie. Think there's a foreign version. Seems that's the way hollywood goes these days.
But yeah I agree give some guys a little power and they get carried away.
This was based on real life experiments? Damn, I missed that, now I am even more horrified by the way people responded and yet I could see myself responding the same way as some of the players.
That is absolutely frightening. Especially this part.
In April 2007, it was reported that high school students in Waxahachie, Texas, who were participating in a role-playing exercise fell into a similar abusive pattern of behavior as exhibited in the original Stanford experiment
In April 2007, it was reported that high school students in Waxahachie, Texas, who were participating in a role-playing exercise fell into a similar abusive pattern of behavior as exhibited in the original Stanford experiment
The foreign one is called Das Experiment, it's German. That's the one I saw and it was very good.
Group/Social Psychology is something that both interests me and freaks me out at the same time. Another example of how different (and often disturbingly) people act under group pressure is The Milgram Shock Experiment. Most of the participants in that experiment where willing to shock a person pretty much to death as long as there was a stern authority figure telling them to do so. Normally this behaviour would horrify those same people.
People can behave so radically different when they are acting as part of a group.
Its also interesting to note some of the little "Terb -ism's" here. Like how many people here try to gain status by how many escorts they bed, or the rather common view here that most women (outside of the sex industry; "civilians" lol) are money hungry bitches.
Group/Social Psychology is something that both interests me and freaks me out at the same time. Another example of how different (and often disturbingly) people act under group pressure is The Milgram Shock Experiment. Most of the participants in that experiment where willing to shock a person pretty much to death as long as there was a stern authority figure telling them to do so. Normally this behaviour would horrify those same people.
People can behave so radically different when they are acting as part of a group.
Its also interesting to note some of the little "Terb -ism's" here. Like how many people here try to gain status by how many escorts they bed, or the rather common view here that most women (outside of the sex industry; "civilians" lol) are money hungry bitches.
Not all that surprising Bosnia basically had neighbours resorting to genocide and other attrocities. Many examples in current times and history.
People are animals.
People are animals.
Nah they probably have a better capacity to forgive.I think animals would be insulted.
This all goes back to a series of studies conducted by Dr. Stanley Milgram at Yale University in 1961 measuring the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal moral values. His results were first published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology in 1963 and he followed put with a book in 1974 Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. Basicly his original research interest was: did those who actually carried out the day to day operations of the Holocaust have an altered sense of morality. His troubling conclusion was no, rather that almost all of us have it in us to do what they did.
Milgram experiments have since been conducted around the world with consistent results but, however, with different percentages of compliance.
Dr. Milgram has written: "Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority."
Milgram experiments have since been conducted around the world with consistent results but, however, with different percentages of compliance.
Dr. Milgram has written: "Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority."
For once I am grateful for my defiant nature. Ugh
Are these 'studies' actually used for anything useful or is it just a way to use up surplus funds and/or satisfy some maniacs sadistic imagination?
Are these 'studies' actually used for anything useful or is it just a way to use up surplus funds and/or satisfy some maniacs sadistic imagination?
