10 Psychological Experiments You Would Never Believe Happened

[Music] number ten Asch conformity test - conformity test was conducted in the early 1950s and showed the human tendency to stick with a mob even though it is clearly wrong in this experiment one person the unknowing subject is placed in a room full of actors the conductor the experiment held up a piece of paper with three lines on it and asked for the crowd to identify the longest line the actors all showed the wrong answer on purpose to see whether the subjects would disagree using their own logic or go with everyone else's answers simply because there is strength in numbers 37 out of a sample size of 50 chose the incorrect answer even though it was very easy to identify the correct option this test proved how much people are willing to conform to others ideas this day psychologists still passionately debate whether this comes from a need to be accepted or from serious issues with self-esteem number 9 the marshmallow experiment I've heard the expression patience is better but its fruit is sweet yeah us neither till we had to google it for this video perspective this experiment proves how this really is the case apparently jean-jacques rousseau a French thinker the 18th century was really on to something when he said this Stanford University remembers Walter Mischel conducted an experiment in 1972 to test just how true this was children aged four to six were taken into a room and a marshmallow was placed before each one the administrators then left them alone in a room and they were told that if they could go for 15 minutes without eating it then they would get a second one as a reward dominoes record how long each child go before succumbing to temptation and they further record how each child fared later on in life and the results were surprising all those who had waited longer before giving in eating the marshmallow we reported to have a higher success rate in adulthood a small minority of the 600 children sampled stuff to their faces immediately but a third of them were able to wait long enough to earn the second marshmallow in the extensive research conducted over the span of those child's lives it was found that the children who waited patiently in gratification longer we're more likely to do better on the SATs and we're more intellectually competent in comparison to their peers so even though being patient and waiting really is better try to be more mindful of it and the results in the end are worth it number eight Carlsberg social experiment Carlsberg a Danish beer brewing company conducted the social experiment and then turned into a successful marketing gimmick they tricked innocent couples of cinema and Brussels to test how gutsy humans can be when faced with an unfamiliar situation at the cinema a hundred and forty a man dressed as bikers filled the entire stadium and only two seats available were right in the middle Carlsberg representatives were present to record the exchange that took place many of the couples have walked in and were shocked to see the crowd and some of them even responded by saying that this wasn't what they had paid for many couples were daunted by the bikers and turned away whether this happened the bikers showed no reaction however every time a couple awkwardly shuffled between the bikers and claiming the two seats in the middle everyone broke out an applause and offered the pair a bottle of Carlsberg beer the reactions of the couples were of genuine shock and pleasure this is just another experiment to show that humans are creatures of habit and are fearful when approaching the unknown number 7 robbers cave experiment this experiment took place in the summer of 1954 a group of preteen boys were used to see how different groups work together to solve conflicts Mazar and carolyn sheriff as well as their research team at the University of Oklahoma were responsible for finding 24 boys who were well-adjusted socially and physically in their communities and invited them to a seemingly ordinary summer camp what these kids didn't know was that the counselors were actually psychologists and they were the unknowing subjects of a psychological experiment the two groups were split randomly and the boys within each group were encouraged to bond with each other however the two groups were kept apart at all times and the counselors did little things to reinforce competitiveness between the two groups after instilling competition and some hostility between them the counselors held tournaments in which the winners were awarded and the losers were made to feel bad this led to a whole new level of anger and resentment between the groups finally as the last step to this experiment the psychologist introduced a stimulus that was bad for both groups the first one was a shortage of water and surprisingly they found that the two groups were willing to work together to solve the issue this sparked the curiosity of the psychologists who had set up a few more of these tasks more stimuli such as lack of food were introduced into the study which led to even greater cooperation between the groups by the end of the experiment they were working comfortably with each other and all the initial hostility was long forgotten this study is famous for showing a lot about the human psychic many gang movies in even high school sports movies will tell you the same thing adversity and combined suffering tends to bring even the worst of enemies closer together number six the ape and the child believe it or not a fair number of human beings have being raised in the wild by animals therefore scientists craved the chance to see if animals could be taught the civilized ways of mankind in 1931 psychologist Winthrop Kellogg decided to see what would happen if he adopted a 7 month old female chimpanzee named Guha zone son Donald was only in ten months old at the time Donald Guha became fast friends and did everything together Kellogg took it a step further and even tested their development shockingly enough Guha did better on many of these tests however the Kellogg's were disappointed that Guha had not acquired the ability to communicate through words and they were horrified to discover the Donald's speech cognition was also suffering when he imitated Goa's hunger bark the Kellogg's decided that Donald need to spend more time around other humans goooooo was shipped off to a primate center where she died a year layer due to a fever this experiment is not well known because this is odd to think the humans find easier to emulate animals than vice-versa there's a real theory out there that cats and dogs tend to act and even behave like their owners over time there's so much about the human animal relationship that is wildly fascinating for researchers and with lack of concrete information there is a much much room for growth number five beneficial brainwashing dr. cameron believes the brain can be reprogrammed to be healthier by simply forcing a new pattern of thinking at the time he thought he found a cure for schizophrenia and used to force patients to listen to record audio messages on a loop for long periods of time he named this psychic driving as according to him the messages were being directly received by the psychic causing the media to dub is approach beneficial brainwashing from the 1950s to the 1960s many of Cameron's patients at the Montreal Allen memorial clinic became his test subjects and whether they suffered from schizophrenia or not was not taken into account each was injected with barbiturates and forced to listen to different reaffirming mantras such as people like you and need you to check the effectiveness of the program he once played the instructions to his subjects so that they must pick up a piece of paper afterwards he drove him to a nearby gym were oddly enough there was a piece of paper in the middle of the room he was convinced those methods were working as all the subjects instantaneously went to grab that one piece of paper the CIA heard of the good doctors work and funded his research as they were interested in the findings unfortunately for them their investment did not pay off as he had shut down the experiment when the subjects later learned that the CIA's involvement they pressed charges but the matter was quickly solved out of court for an undisclosed amount gulp - even Cameron himself a mid-layer that his research had been a step in the wrong direction and that had been focused on the wrong elements number four a class divided blue-eyed brown-eyed Jane Elliott started this experiment at a local elementary school after Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968 she divided her students into two groups those with blue eyes and those with brown eyes the first day she deemed those with blue eyes a superior group and started giving them preferential treatment during playtime in class time the changes she knows within a day were significant almost instantaneously the blue-eyed group armed with their superiority started doing better academically some of them even started bullying the brown-eyed kids and there was a fight between two boys by the end of the day likewise the brown-eyed kids did not do as well as they normally did academically and fell into the role of being inferiors the second day she reversed the roles between the two groups and said that the brown eye kids were better the results again showed the fast effects of negative conditioning the brown eye kids did so much better than they had before and they returned to being more confident and outgoing well they were only children both groups learned the horrible effects of racism and interestingly enough when the class came together again at a reunion each of them are under the incident remark that made them more conscious of the different challenges that people have diversity faced Jane Elliott became an advocate for this experience and she was often asked to give talks to different groups and conduct the experiment with them as well her results have always shown that when people are expected to fail they are more likely to undeniably the perception of others does play an important role in self development number three the monster test this test was called the monster study because of how unethical was in its nature however ironically this study shows the importance of positive reinforcement for the development of a healthy self in 1939 Wendell Johnson from the University of Iowa selected 22 orphans and split them randomly into two groups each group had a number of children either stuttered or had some sort of speech impediment one group was constantly belittled for every single mistake they made and under the constant chastisement of the psychologists the children in this group actually worsened even more shockingly the children who had previously not had any speech impediment developed verbal issues after being part of this morally outrageous study on the other hand those who were placed in the other group were given positive therapy their progress was highlighted planted every step of the way this greatly inspired the massive changes of the took place and many of the orphans developed greater fluency even those with stutters are reportedly doing much better and holding conversations in 2007 several the orphans who would have been well in their early seventies press charges against to study for the lifelong damages that had suffered as many of them had retained such issues well into their adult life the courts awarded 60s orphan children with nine hundred and twenty five thousand dollars as compensation for their abuse which isn't all too much considering many of them were permanently harmed olá was a harsh and gruesome experiment many of the reforms in our modern-day educational system are based on the findings that support positive reinforcement over criticism number two Milgram experiment the Milgram experiment refers to a series of experiments that were conducted by Yale University professor Stanley Milgram during the early 60s this test was conducted soon after one of the nazis who was put on trial in israel pled the defense of simply following orders since everyone was questioning how much of an effect obedience has on people professor Milgram and his team decided to explore the theory of obedience to Authority the experiment asked ordinary people to ask a volunteer who was part of Milgram scheme interrogated questions and then administer shocks through a machine if the volunteer answered incorrectly the conductor the experiment took the authoritative role and asked unknowing subjects to increase the voltage of the shock after each question was incorrectly answered luckily unbeknownst the shock administer the shocks were completely fake and the volunteer was a hired actor in order for the test to be truly accurate the shock administrator was led to believe it was real and each shock came at the series of horrifying screams from the volunteer in one case the UN told the subjects that the volunteer had a heart condition which they expected to awaken the conscience of the subjects unfortunately the results showed something horrifying about human nature Milgram's team expected the subjects to stop giving the shocks after a certain number but almost everyone kept going and obeyed the commands of the authority figure without taking into account the morality of their actions the study makes it to the top of a wacky psychological experiments because it shows that there is a little bit of evil within everyone and that all it takes to emerge is the authoritative command number one Stanford Prison Experiment this insane experiment was conducted in the early 1970s and there have been numerous reports and further studies about it dr. Philip Zimbardo ethically questionable experiments even inspired an award-winning movie in 2015 the study was conducted to explore the effects of the prison system on inmates and guards both the Navy in the general military were interested in the findings as at the time they wish to understand the troubled relationship between inmates and guards Zimbardo his team enticed 24 males to be part of the study by offering them a pay of fifteen dollars per day these males were further divided into two groups either the guards or the prisoners perhaps the freakiest element of the study was that they were chosen for these roles randomly no certain characteristics could have predicted these decisions the participants were told to make the simulation as realistic as possible the prisoners were told to forget they had real names and answer only to their assigned numbers their clothes were stripped off them and they were forced to wear uncomfortable prison garb at the time the guards were given power symbols such as batons and sunglasses soon after the experiment began the guards became abusive due to the immense power that they had and the prisoners lost all sense of self and complied with anything that they were told to do as a study progressed his Umberto's team discovered that the guards became more sadistic over time and seemed to enjoy inflicting pain on their underlings within the first few days to the inmates asked to leave the experiment one person experienced a mental breakdown and the other suffered an extreme body rash dr. Zimbardo omits that he himself became obsessed with the power that he had as a prison warden and allowed the abuse to go on until his girlfriend point out the ethical issues of the program the study was meant to go on for two weeks but after just six days the disturbing results forced Zimbardo to terminate the experiment the results are so morbidly fascinating because they show that normal people are capable of doing terrible things if they are provided with the right environment as one of the participants perfectly summed it up by saying you don't know what you would do unless you were in that situation if you ever take up psychology in school you will definitely hear about this experiment trust me I did [Music] [Music]

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Published: Thu Sep 15 2016