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
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.
Little Albert Experiment, 1920
Skinner's Operant Conditioning Experiments, 1948
The Asch Conformity Experiments, 1951
Harlow’s Rhesus Monkey Experiments, 1957 to 1963
The Bobo Doll Experiment, 1961, 1963
The Learned Helplessness Experiment, 1965
Milgram Obedience Experiment, 1963
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.
ATE - XRX Designer Drugs: Untested and Dangerous
NIH - Informed consent in human experimentation before the Nuremberg code
NEMJ - Fifty Years Later: The Significance of the Nuremberg Code
Nonconsensual Medical Experiments on Human Beings - RB Standler
HSW - 10 Outrageous Experiments Conducted on Humans
NBC News - Ugly past of U.S. human experiments uncovered
Wiki - Unethical human experimentation in the United States