27 Psychology Facts That Will Leave Your Brain Itching For More
Interesting stuff about the way your head works.
Published 10 years ago in Wow
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Stanley Milgram once tested people’s ability for obedience with this test: Participants were told to give a participant in another room a shock each time they answered a question wrong. The shocks increased in intensity as time went on. Even when they knew they were causing harm, the majority of the participants continued to shock their subjects, simply because they were told to.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment showed just how easily we adapt to our surroundings, even if that means being violent: To study the psychology of imprisonment, participants in a study were assigned roles as prisoners and as guards. Subject who were assigned to the role of guards used authoritarian measures and psychological torture to keep prisoners in line, and other subjects became submissive to them.
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