#psychological experiments

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The Milgram Experiment:

The Milgram Experiment was an experiment that was conducted in the 1960’s (1963, to be exact) which aimed to see how far an ordinary individual would go to follow an order or command from another individual with a seemingly apparent position of authority. In this case, it was a person in a white lab coat. It aimed to find out how ordinary German citizens could have followed orders from someone like Adolf Hitler, and followed along with the atrocious and vile actions he committed.

In the experiment, two people were split into the categories of “teacher” and “learner”. The teacher would then be put into a room with a person in a lab coat, and on the other side of a divider would be the student. For clarification purposes, the “learner” was actually an actor and no harm was physically done to them but more on that in a moment.

The teacher was then tasked with asking the learner a series of questions, and for each right answer the student was allowed a moment of peace. For each wrong answer, however, they were given a nice friendly electrical shock. The more wrong questions they answered, the higher the voltage being delivered would become. (Reminder: the student is actually an actor but the teacher doesn’t know this).

After a while, subjects would say they did not wish to participate in the experiment any longer out of fear of causing more harm to the student, but the person in the lab coat would urge them to continue the experiment (time to brush up on your ethics of experiments here, kiddos). After a while, the student would kick the wall and fall silent, tricking the teacher into thinking that at that point they were delivering electric shocks to a dead body on the other side of the divider.

The results of the experiment horrified Stanley Milgram, revealing that ordinary citizens (65%) were willing to deliver a fatal voltage simply because a man in a white lab coat told them to.

On a final note, before I leave you to come to your own conclusions on Mr. Stanley Milgram and the Milgram Experiment, let’s review the ethical rules of a psychological experiment!

1. You have the right to leave the experiment or opt out at any time

2. The researcher must receive your INFORMED CONSENT before proceeding with the experiment. You have a right to know before you go.

3. Deception and tricking your participants is an ethical no no. Need I say more.

4. Anonymity data should be kept anonymous. The only exception to this in my mind would be if the participant in question gave you their EXPLICIT consent and permission.

5. You must not put your participants in any significant amount of physical or psychological harm. Think of the psychological harm of believing you had actually electrocuted someone in an experiment. That’s some SIGNIFICANT psychological damage.

6. Debriefing is a MUST.

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A Volkswagen initiative called The Fun Theory set out to prove that people's behaviour can be changed for the better by making mundane activities fun. In this experiment, they set up musical piano steps on the staircase of a Stockholm, Sweden subway station to see if more people would be more willing to choose the healthier option and take the stairs instead of the escalator. The results revealed that 66 percent more people took the stairs than usual that day, proving that fun is the best way to get people to change their ways.

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Famous Psychological Experiments That We Have Heard

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Famous Psychological Experiments That We Have Heard

Each of us has already heard about the psychological experiments. Of these famous experiments of psychology that cause goosebumps. Like Stanley Milgram’s. Who successfully instructed his subjects to put violent electric shocks on foreign people. They were ordinary people who did it.

Most Famous Psychological Experiments

They gave electric shocks simply because they were told. But who were these men? Why was there an attempt at all? And how did this influence us? Questions that Lauren Slater in her book “of Rats and people” is trying to get to the bottom. Milgram experiments is only one under ten, which the author has subjected to an accurate as well as very personal analysis.

“Rats and humans”- Already the title is program, because the American author Lauren Salter, by the way herself psychologist, kidnapped very skilfully, humorously and sometimes a bit cynical in the often skurill-looking world of psychology and her actors. Or as it is in the original title so beautiful is called openning Skinner’s Box: She opens the box, one for lay mysterious. And that makes them extremely unconventional. For Lauren Slater not only describes ten of the most important psychological experiments of the twentieth century and arranges them historically, but also presents the test makers in detail, describes their Vita, both professionally and privately, and always tries to extent to which the experiments have influenced the lives of the creators themselves.

Skillfully, the author breathes life into the experiments, brings them out of the world of science and makes them tangible. She does not shy away from repeating some of the experiments presented in her own body. All of this makes them so good, so skillfully, that they can be followed as readers. One creeps through the black box of a B. F. Skinner, who successfully showed that the behaviour of rats could be conditioned by reward and thus also offered conclusions for human behavior.

That man is directed less by free will than by the prospect of reward. The story about this experiment is particularly spiced up by the fact that Slater is following the rumors about Skinner’s older daughter. Rumours suggesting that Skinner should have put his daughter in a box in the first two years of her life to make her behave.

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The story of a series of chilling psychological experiments on an infant in 1920.

In the early decades of the twentieth century the discipline of psychology was still in its infancy, but beginning to make significant headway. Pioneering researchers were enthusiastically unraveling the human mind, and some were willing to go to alarming lengths to satisfy their curiosity.

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5 Disturbing Experiments From The Past That Were Conducted On Children

5 Disturbing Experiments From The Past That Were Conducted On Children

It’s no secret that atrocities have been committed throughout history in the name of science.

And experiments carried out on children are among the worst. Psychology has always been difficult to study, since recruiting human participants is a necessary evil in the field.

The five experiments in this video throw scientific horrors from the past in shocking relief against what we deem acceptable…

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