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10 Psychological experiments that went horribly wrong.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 9:44 pm
Posted on 4/10/14 at 9:44 pm
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10. Stanford Prison Experiment
9. The Monster Study
8. MK-ULTRA
7. Elephant on LSD
6. Milgram Experiment
5. Tony LaMadrid
4. Pit of Despair
3. The Third Wave
2. Homosexual Aversion Therapy
1. David Reimer
10. Stanford Prison Experiment
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In 1971, social psychologist Philip Zimbardo set out to interrogate the ways in which people conform to social roles, using a group of male college students to take part in a two-week-long experiment in which they would live as prisoners and guards in a mock prison. However, having selected his test subjects, Zimbardo assigned them their roles without their knowledge, unexpectedly arresting the "prisoners" outside their own homes. The results were disturbing. Ordinary college students turned into viciously sadistic guards or spineless (and increasingly distraught) prisoners, becoming deeply enmeshed within the roles they were playing. After just six days, the distressing reality of this "prison" forced Zimbardo to prematurely end the experiment.
9. The Monster Study
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In this study, conducted in 1939, 22 orphaned children, 10 with stutters, were separated equally into two groups: one with a speech therapist who conducted "positive" therapy by praising the children’s progress and fluency of speech; the other with a speech therapist who openly chastised the children for the slightest mistake. The results showed that the children who had received negative responses were badly affected in terms of their psychological health. Yet more bad news was to come as it was later revealed that some of the children who had previously been unaffected developed speech problems following the experiment. In 2007, six of the orphan children were awarded $925,000 in compensation for emotional damage that the six-month-study had left them with.
8. MK-ULTRA
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The CIA performed many unethical experiments into mind control and psychology under the banner of project MK-ULTRA during the 50s and 60s. Theodore Kaczynski, otherwise known as the Unabomber, is reported to have been a test subject in the CIA's disturbing experiments, which may have contributed to his mental instability. In another case, the administration of LSD to US Army biological weapons expert Frank Olson is thought to have sparked a crisis of conscience, inspiring him to tell the world about his research. Instead, Olson is said to have committed suicide, jumping from a thirteenth-story hotel room window, although there is strong evidence that he was murdered. This doesn't even touch on the long-term psychological damage other test subjects are likely to have suffered.
7. Elephant on LSD
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In 1962, Warren Thomas, the director of Lincoln Park Zoo in Oklahoma City, injected an elephant named Tusko with 3,000 times the typical human dose of LSD. It was an attempt to make his mark on the scientific community by determining whether the drug could induce "musth" — the aggressiveness and high hormone levels that male elephants experience periodically. The only contribution Thomas made was to create a public relations disaster as Tusko died almost immediately after collapsing and going into convulsions.
6. Milgram Experiment
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In 1963, in the wake of the atrocities of the Holocaust, Stanley Milgram set out to test the hypothesis that there was something special about the German people that had allowed them to participate in genocide. Under the pretense of an experiment into human learning, Milgram asked normal members of the public to ask questions to a man attached to an electric-shock generator and shock him in increasing measure when he answered incorrectly. The man was an actor, the shocks fake; but the participants didn’t know this. The terrifying part? People overwhelmingly obeyed the commands of the experimenter, even when the man screamed in apparent agony and begged for mercy. A little evil in all of us, perhaps?
5. Tony LaMadrid
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Many medicated schizophrenics enrolled in a University of California study that required them to stop taking their medication in a program that started in 1983. The study was meant to give information that would allow doctors to better treat schizophrenia, but rather it messed up the lives of many of the test subjects, 90% of whom relapsed into episodes of mental illness. One participant, Tony LaMadrid, leaped to his death from a rooftop six years after first enrolling in the study.
4. Pit of Despair
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Psychologist Harry Harlow was obsessed with the concept of love, but rather than writing poems or love songs, he performed sick, twisted experiments on monkeys during the 1970s. One of his experiments revolved around confining the monkeys in total isolation in an apparatus he called the "well of despair” (a featureless, empty chamber depriving the animal of any stimulus or socialization) — which resulted in his subjects going insane and even starving themselves to death in two cases. Harlow ignored the criticism of his colleagues, and is quoted as saying, “How could you love monkeys?” The last laugh was on him, however, as his horrific treatment of his subjects is acknowledged as being a driving force behind the development of the animal rights movement and the end of such cruel experiments.
3. The Third Wave
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Running along a similar theme similar to the Milgram experiment, The Third Wave, carried out in 1967, was an experiment that set out to explore the ways in which even democratic societies can become infiltrated by the appeal of fascism. Using a class of high school students, the experimenter created a system whereby some students were considered members of a prestigious order. The students showed increased motivation to learn, yet, more worryingly, became eager to get on board with malevolent practices, such as excluding and ostracizing non-members from the class. Even more scarily, this behavior was gleefully continued outside of the classroom. After just four days, the experiment was considered to be slipping out of control and was ceased.
2. Homosexual Aversion Therapy
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In the 1960s homosexuality was frequently depicted as a mental illness, with many individuals seeking (voluntarily or otherwise) a way to "cure" themselves of their sexual attraction to members of the same sex. Experimental therapies at the time included aversion therapy — where homosexual images were paired with such things as electric shocks and injections that caused vomiting. The thought was that the patient would associate pain with homosexuality. Rather than "curing" homosexuality, these experiments profoundly psychologically damaged the patients, with at least one man dying from the “treatment” he received, after he went into a coma.
1. David Reimer
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In 1966, when David Reimer was 8 months old, his circumcision was botched and he lost his penis to burns. Psychologist John Money suggested that baby David be given a sex change. The parents agreed, but what they didn’t know was that Money secretly wanted to use David as part of an experiment to prove his views that gender identity was not inborn, but rather determined by nature and upbringing. David was renamed Brenda, surgically altered to have a vagina, and given hormonal supplements — but tragically the experiment backfired. "Brenda" acted like a stereotypical boy throughout childhood, and the Reimer family began to fall apart. At 14, Brenda was told the truth, and decided to go back to being David. He committed suicide at the age of 38.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 9:52 pm to hawgfaninc
There's a movie about #10 that I can't recall the name.
shite hits the fan. Wish I could remember the name.
I also seem to recall #8 being part of a movie.
There should be experiments done on my lack of ability to recall the names of movies I've watched.
shite hits the fan. Wish I could remember the name.
I also seem to recall #8 being part of a movie.
There should be experiments done on my lack of ability to recall the names of movies I've watched.
This post was edited on 4/10/14 at 9:54 pm
Posted on 4/10/14 at 9:54 pm to hawgfaninc
The one where they cut off the old man's senses and he connected with death.
The one where the Soviets keep five guys awake for a a couple of months and they turn into zombies.
The one where the Soviets keep five guys awake for a a couple of months and they turn into zombies.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 9:55 pm to Titus Pullo
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There's a movie about #10 that I can't recall the name.
The Experiment with Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:07 pm to lighter345
That's it.
Many thanks.
Many thanks.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:10 pm to hawgfaninc
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1. David Reimer
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Reimer said that Dr. Money forced the twins to rehearse sexual acts involving "thrusting movements", with David playing the bottom role.[4] Reimer said that, as a child, he had to get "down on all fours" with his brother, Brian Reimer, "up behind his butt" with "his crotch against" his "buttocks".[4] Reimer said that Dr. Money forced David, in another sexual position, to have his "legs spread" with Brian on top.[4] Reimer said that Dr. Money also forced the children to take their "clothes off" and engage in "genital inspections".[4] On at "least one occasion", Reimer said that Dr. Money took a photograph of the two children doing these activities.[4] Dr. Money's rationale for these various treatments was his belief that "childhood 'sexual rehearsal play'" was important for a "healthy adult gender identity".[4]
Motherfricking sick frick.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:10 pm to hawgfaninc
Not that I would ever ever want anyone to do this experiment, but I wonder what would happen if you put a newborn baby in an isolated room with only a computer. Don't give them any human interaction, or even knowledge that other people exist. Just put food in the room when they are asleep and see what happens. Would they figure out how to work the computer? If so would they be able to use it to learn anything?
Again, I would never want someone to actually do this just curious what would happen
Again, I would never want someone to actually do this just curious what would happen
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:12 pm to hawgfaninc
I remember seeing the tv special on David Reimer, sad to see that he killed himself.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:13 pm to hawgfaninc
quote:After which, they all kicked the shite out of him and locked him in a dark cell for six months, I really really hope.
In 1971, social psychologist Philip Zimbardo set out to interrogate the ways in which people conform to social roles, using a group of male college students to take part in a two-week-long experiment in which they would live as prisoners and guards in a mock prison. However, having selected his test subjects, Zimbardo assigned them their roles without their knowledge, unexpectedly arresting the "prisoners" outside their own homes. The results were disturbing. Ordinary college students turned into viciously sadistic guards or spineless (and increasingly distraught) prisoners, becoming deeply enmeshed within the roles they were playing. After just six days, the distressing reality of this "prison" forced Zimbardo to prematurely end the experiment.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:14 pm to hawgfaninc
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6. Milgram Experiment
Wrote a paper about this in college. There is an old adage that the German soldiers were just following orders and would be killed if they didn't obey and should not be held to war crimes. The US and allied forces refused to believe this. He pretty much proved that any human being will do as they are told if there life is threatened and will not take the moral/high road.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:16 pm to Tiger1242
Pretty sure a newborn baby would die if put in a room with no human to at least feed it.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:20 pm to Tiger1242
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Not that I would ever ever want anyone to do this experiment, but I wonder what would happen if you put a newborn baby in an isolated room with only a computer. Don't give them any human interaction, or even knowledge that other people exist. Just put food in the room when they are asleep and see what happens. Would they figure out how to work the computer? If so would they be able to use it to learn anything?
Again, I would never want someone to actually do this just curious what would happen
Well, an actual newborn can't self-feed, but aside from that, you'd likely just end up with a feral child living in his own excrement.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:28 pm to hawgfaninc
quote:Wow. Human beings are like lab rats to far too many of these people.
In 1966, when David Reimer was 8 months old, his circumcision was botched and he lost his penis to burns. Psychologist John Money suggested that baby David be given a sex change. The parents agreed, but what they didn’t know was that Money secretly wanted to use David as part of an experiment to prove his views that gender identity was not inborn, but rather determined by nature and upbringing. David was renamed Brenda, surgically altered to have a vagina, and given hormonal supplements — but tragically the experiment backfired. "Brenda" acted like a stereotypical boy throughout childhood, and the Reimer family began to fall apart. At 14, Brenda was told the truth, and decided to go back to being David. He committed suicide at the age of 38.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:32 pm to hawgfaninc
I can't remember but I'm pretty sure #2 or an experiment similar was done at Tulane back in the day.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:38 pm to hawgfaninc
I don't see how they say the Milgram experiment went horrible wrong. It seems to have gone disturbingly right. It proved his theory and in reality no one was harmed. It just proved people are pretty twisted.
The same can kind of be said of the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Third Wave experiment. While the results were disturbing, it showed a lot about human nature. Although some people did receive some injuries during the Stanford Experiment if I recall which prompted the experiment to be stopped?
The rest were pretty messed up and science gone wrong.
The same can kind of be said of the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Third Wave experiment. While the results were disturbing, it showed a lot about human nature. Although some people did receive some injuries during the Stanford Experiment if I recall which prompted the experiment to be stopped?
The rest were pretty messed up and science gone wrong.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:41 pm to olemc999
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Wrote a paper about this in college. There is an old adage that the German soldiers were just following orders and would be killed if they didn't obey and should not be held to war crimes. The US and allied forces refused to believe this. He pretty much proved that any human being will do as they are told if there life is threatened and will not take the moral/high road.
Go read "Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland"
It's an entire book saying that almost anyone would do unspeakable acts if put in the German soldiers' situation.
This post was edited on 4/10/14 at 10:43 pm
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:47 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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Go read "Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland"
Will do.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:51 pm to Henry Jones Jr
RIP Tusko, may you be tripping elephant balls in the great circus in the sky.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 10:59 pm to hawgfaninc
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the other with a speech therapist who openly chastised the children for the slightest mistake. The results showed that the children who had received negative responses were badly affected in terms of their psychological health
That's horrible.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 11:02 pm to Tiger1242
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Not that I would ever ever want anyone to do this experiment, but I wonder what would happen if you put a newborn baby in an isolated room with only a computer. Don't give them any human interaction, or even knowledge that other people exist. Just put food in the room when they are asleep and see what happens. Would they figure out how to work the computer? If so would they be able to use it to learn anything?
Do you REALLY think that a baby with no human contact ever could just figure out how to use a computer? REALLY?
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