The Milgram Experiment comes to TeeVee..

[DC1]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100316/ts_afp/francetelevisionpsychologyentertainment


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment



Yikes!



dc

please folks, no politics or religion!

[BobbyFudge]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100316/ts_afp/francetelevisionpsychologyentertainment


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment



Yikes!



dc

please folks, no politics or religion!
:sarcasm

[rh]

So Milgram's experiment can be mapped to a TV show context, and strikingly similar results obtained.

Who is surprised by this ? Sheeple are sheeple regardless of what pen you put them in.

[DC1]

So Milgram's experiment can be mapped to a TV show context, and strikingly similar results obtained.

Who is surprised by this ? Sheeple are sheeple regardless of what pen you put them in.

What's amazing is that there are serious ethical objections to the stress it put people under, and many consider it to be something we could not conduct today.

Except on TV....

dc

[Kaji13]

I probably would have walked out from that. Creepy.

[DC1]

I probably would have walked out from that. Creepy.

What emerged from the original study, and apparently from the show as well, is most people will shock the crap out of someone else, or even "kill" them if an authority figure instructs them to.

There are these shining examples, both in the experiments and in real life, where some people stand right up and say NO!

Sure wish there were more. I've been privileged to know a couple. I hope I would be one of them...

dc

[Kaji13]

I really can't imagine myself harming someone like that infront of an audience, especially if they're asking me to let them go.

[smiert spionam]

What's amazing is that there are serious ethical objections to the stress it put people under, and many consider it to be something we could not conduct today.

Except on TV....

dc

Yup. There's no way that study would pass a university IRB human subjects review panel today.

[jcmark611]

No offense but, at what point would you kinda say, "Hey, this is TV as in.... it's all fake. If I just play along I'll get some good cash out of this."

[rh]

What's amazing is that there are serious ethical objections to the stress it put people under, and many consider it to be something we could not conduct today.

Except on TV....
Interesting. I haven't followed that aspect of psychological research. Interesting as well is the suggestion that TV circumvents those objections. Those dim-witted TV censors will never catch on to that.

What I find most unfortunate is that there is quantified proof that The Majority consists of those with authoritarian psyches. That's something I wish had never been measured, given its potential (increasingly realized potential, in my opinion) for misuse.

[rh]

No offense but, at what point would you kinda say, "Hey, this is TV as in.... it's all fake. If I just play along I'll get some good cash out of this."

That's an interesting question. It's only comparable to the Milgram experiment to the degree the subjects believed they were actually doing harm.

Some percentage of those who walked out probably believed it. (Some others who walked out may have believed it was fake, but been disgusted anyway).

[Shamus]

Dr. Peter Venkman conducted research akin to this... except the people got shocked and he got the phone numbers of some hot girls... Does that count?

http://assets.motherboard.tv/post_images/assets/000/001/677/peter-venkman-bill-murray_sized_large.jpg

[RobRowland]

The Milgram experiments tread a very fine line between good and bad science in my opinion, and only really serve to highlight what we already know - humans are capable of being very very nasty.

Irresponsible programming tbh.

[James M]

Alas....I wonder how long it will be before televised gladiator fights and executions?

[RobRowland]

Alas....I wonder how long it will be before televised gladiator fights and executions?

If they think they can sell ad space, they'll do it.

I'm anticipating them using the arguement that you can see all this sort of stuff on teh interwebz anyway, so we need to be cashing in.

[cruster]

Alas....I wonder how long it will be before televised gladiator fights and executions?

Too outdated. It's headed more towards Bixby Snyder and "I'd buy that for a dollar!"

[drgonzoguitar]

Yup. There's no way that study would pass a university IRB human subjects review panel today.

Hehehe....true.

[rh]

Alas....I wonder how long it will be before televised gladiator fights and executions?

Some of the MMA leagues are just short of that.