Human Experiments

Summary: A sensitive subject… interesting once understood or observed in a clinical manner. What does that mean? Let’s try something - Self-esteem is valuable, and awareness is important for so many reasons. People can shift once they know more; the problem is when they choose not to gain growth or change and become part of a problem and justify it.

Conformist or a non-conformist?

Moral or Immoral or Amoral?

Oberservor or drama creator?

Educator or student?

Manipulator or Henchman/Flying Monkey?

Victim or Abuser?

Driven by empathy or traits and undiagnosed disorder, change only happens if insight can be absorbed. Gender-neutral data, so we are all in it together. Infinite information doesn’t mean depth. Feedback is key.

That was a way of looking at objects or definitions and labels… so why do certain behaviour patterns happen? Why are so many behaviours predictable?

Experiments - Knowing how people react, think and act in times of stress or under influence. Curiosity to see a blueprint or something else.

Simply Psychology - Operant Conditioning: What It Is, How It Works, And Examples

Simply Psychology - What Is Cognitive Dissonance Theory?

Social and unethical experiments on humans, with or without prior consent, were something of an eye-opener.

True or False: Human beings can be influenced by false positives, false truths, delude themselves into thinking something is acceptable if someone says “it’s for a good cause”, or uses much harsher words.

True or False: Detachment and influence may make some people into monsters if ‘everyone else is doing it’ becomes the motivation.

True or False: Money can be used to influence some people into doing unethical actions to people on behalf of someone else.

ORI - Nuremberg Code: Directives for Human Experimentation

Parliament UK - The Ten Points of the Nuremberg Code

Wiki - Nuremberg Code

The direct questions for anyone:

1) What percentage of the population is self-aware?

2) What will it take for you to survive?

3) Who are you hurting in the long run if you are influenced not to see the crime?

4) What is influence?

5) What does the pressure feel like to fit in?

6) What does it feel like to conform if everyone else does it?

7) What does it feel like when not conforming?

8) Conformist or a non-conformist?

Now, do the research and reflect.

Pavlov’s dog, 1890s

Little Albert Experiment, 1920

Skinner's Operant Conditioning Experiments, 1948

The Asch Conformity Experiments, 1951

Harlow’s Rhesus Monkey Experiments, 1957 to 1963

Cognitive Dissonance, 1959

The Bobo Doll Experiment, 1961, 1963

Robbers Cave Experiment, 1954

Fantz’z Looking Chamber, 1961

The Learned Helplessness Experiment, 1965

Milgram Obedience Experiment, 1963

The Bystander Effect, 1964

Blue Eye / Brown Eye Experiment, 1968

The Marshmallow Experiment, 60's & 70's

Stanford Prison Experiment, 1971

The Halo Effect Experiment, 1977

References:

VeryWellMind - The Asch Conformity Experiments

VeryWellMind - What Was the Milgram Experiment?

VeryWellMind - The Stanford Prison Experiment

VeryWellMind - What the Bobo Doll Experiment Reveals About Kids and Aggression

VerywellMind - The Most Famous Social Psychology Experiments Ever Performed

VeryWellMind - Classic Psychology Experiments

OPD - 10 Bizarre Psychology Experiments That Completely Crossed the Line

OSA - 3 Most Famous Psychology Experiments Everyone Should Know

HU - Famous Psychology Experiments to Study

The 25 Most Influential Psychological Experiments in History - Kristen Fescoe

BPS - Ten famous psychology findings that have been difficult to replicate

HP - 15 Famous Experiments And Case Studies In Psychology

Signoff - It may take longer to go to the moon than first assumed, and it may take even longer to realise that narcissistic people might need to stop making more narcissistic people, but they can’t help it. They cannot see the wood for the trees. Everyone else may need to be aware, that nothing is what it seems when a certain education is missing. What can be very dangerous is no education whatsoever.