Groupthink
Groupthink
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have you seen the groupthink testing done in the 50s (around there) when they gave ordinary people the controls (through this knobby device) to electrocute individuals contained within a locked room of a lab? because the person given the orders wore a white lab coat these people felt confident that sending powerful and damaging electric shocks through to absolute strangers was okay. they heard the trapped victim scream violently but were completely at ease with their actions because someone of apparent authority said it was the right thing to do. so bizarre.
wish i could remember where i came across it.
- Thats the erm... arrrgh, its called the MacKenzie test or soemthing... hang on...SkyPoo
- Stanley Milgram. The Milgram test. Milgram2 is interesting too!SkyPoo
- thanks spooky. you are hereby exempt from a hard lashing._salisae_
- though it is ironic that your la opinion kind of falls in line with the thread title._salisae_