12 Nov, 2008
5 Psychological Experiments that exposes the dark side of humanity (Part 5 - Final)
Posted by: Marcelo Galvani In: General
I found this article in English and I am translating.
Sources: Cracked.com and Mindpowernews.com
[Part 5 - Final]
Psychologists know they have to be careful when exploring the human mind, because you never know what you'll find. A series of psychological experiments over the years have yielded terrifying conclusions on the issues.
Oh, we're not talking about an occasional psychopath. No, we're talking about you. The experiments speak for themselves:
# 1. The experiment of Milgram (1961)
The Preparation: When the Nazi persecution to have the ongoing trials of Nuremberg, many of the excuses of the accused appeared revolve around ideas of, "I'm not really a crazy" and "Hey man, I was only following orders." The psychologist Stanley Milgram of Yale University wanted to test how the will of the people undergo a figure of authority. Maybe he could just, you know, ask the people? Oh, no. That would be horrible enough.
Instead he made an experiment in which the participant would be a "teacher" and that his job was to apply a test of memory on another person, located in another room. The whole thing was false and another person was an actor.
The participant was told that when the other person that a wrong answer, he should press a button that will allow him an electric shock. A third person was there with a laboratory coat to make sure that he would (again, the shock was not true, but the participant did not know it).
The participant said that the clashes began at 45 volts and would increase with each wrong answer. Each time the button was pressed, the actor on the other side would scream and beg for the participant to stop.
So you can guess what happened?
The result: Many individuals started to feel uncomfortable after a certain point, and questioned the continuity of experience. However, each time the guy in the lab coat of encouraging us to continue, most of them did, increasing the tension, giving shock after shock, while the victim screamed. Many people laughed nervously, because the laughter is the best remedy when pumping electric currents through the body of another person.
Eventually the actor would begin to hit the wall that separated the participant, begging for his heart condition. After more shocks, all the sounds of the victim ceased, indicating that he was dead or unconscious. If you had to guess, what percentage of individuals who maintained the shock after this point?
Five percent? December?
Between 61 and 66 percent of individuals remain the experience to peak voltage of 450, continuing to deliver shock after the victim lose consciousness or life. Repeated studies have shown the same result: Individuals negligently would cause pain to a strange condition that an innocent man to coat laboratory said that everything is OK.
Most people do not begin to question even the shock of 300 volts. Zero asked them to stop before that point of the experiment (remember to 100 volts is enough to kill a man, in some cases).
What this says about you: You may like to think of you as a free-thinker, but when the situation is this, the likelihood is that you do not go confront the man because of fear. Or the man will be back against you. And this was just a guy in a laboratory coat - imagine if he had a uniform or a badge.
Charles Sheridan and Richard King gave this even a step further and asked the participants to take into shock pups for every action that were incorrect. Unlike the experience of Milgram, the shock was real. Exactly 20, 26 individuals were up to the higher voltage.
Almost 80 per cent. Think about it when you're walking in a mall: Eight in ten of those people who tortured a puppy you see, if a guy in a lab coat for the asking.
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