Friday, March 19, 2010

New Game Show: Contestants Believe That They're Electrocuting Each Other


New Game Show: Contestants Believe That They're Electrocuting Each Other

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In the 1960s, Yale psychology researcher Stanley Milgram conducted a series of experiments in which participants were instructed to deliver dangerous electrical shocks to people. This was staged, and no one was in actual danger, but the experiment suggested that normal people will do horrible things if told to do so by authority figures. Perhaps inspired by that experiment, a French TV production company created a game show with that ...

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