Have been looking at this as part of my Psychology studies and just realised that they did a version of this on Big Brother! Though it isn't actually acceptable to carry this out anymore as it goes against Psychological Ethics. I think its a really interesting study, and really shows the lengths people will go to when given orders from a higher power!
Just found it interesting and thought I'd share!!
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Have been looking at this as part of my Psychology studies and just realised that they did a version of this on Big Brother! Though it isn't actually acceptable to carry this out anymore as it goes against Psychological Ethics. I think its a really interesting study, and really shows the lengths people will go to when given orders from a higher power!
Just found it interesting and thought I'd share!!
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I think a scientifically sounds version was done on french TV, although there was some contraversy over the ethics of it. Tv shows can do what they like (this is how derren brown gets to replicate the study), but to actually have it published in a psychology journal it needs ethics aproval. I can link you the article if your interested.
A lot of studies go against ethics, what was the version on big brother like? P.S I didn't even know BB still existed.
It involved 3 "housemates" being Scientists, and 3 being subjects. The scientists were ordered to ask the subjects questions, and for everyone they got wrong, they would get a shock, gradually increasing. The subjects were told to get every question wrong and pretend to be shocked. They would pass the task if the Scientists stopped the experiment before the max voltage.
I think a scientifically sounds version was done on french TV, although there was some contraversy over the ethics of it. Tv shows can do what they like (this is how derren brown gets to replicate the study), but to actually have it published in a psychology journal it needs ethics aproval. I can link you the article if your interested.
It involved 3 "housemates" being Scientists, and 3 being subjects. The scientists were ordered to ask the subjects questions, and for everyone they got wrong, they would get a shock, gradually increasing. The subjects were told to get every question wrong and pretend to be shocked. They would pass the task if the Scientists stopped the experiment before the max voltage.
Big Brother or not; still very interesting!
Sounds pretty much the same. I guess there are ways of working round the ethics and such methods are usually implemented in the real studies themselves like debriefing, free to leave whenever you wish etc etc. And perhaps those on the show have to consent to any sort of study taking place while they're on the show, I dunno what their contract must be like
What were the 'results' like? How did the participants react?
Sounds pretty much the same. I guess there are ways of working round the ethics and such methods are usually implemented in the real studies themselves like debriefing, free to leave whenever you wish etc etc. And perhaps those on the show have to consent to any sort of study taking place while they're on the show, I dunno what their contract must be like
What were the 'results' like? How did the participants react?
Yeah the contract most likely consents to anythin the TV show want!
The Scientists were really empathetic and stopped the experiment quite early!
Makes you wonder how far you'd go. Obviously most of us would think that we would stop I pretty early on, it's hard to tell with all that pressure from the authorities figure.
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there is quite a lot of interesting new "takes" on Milgram's research. People have found, for example, that he didn't do exactly what he told the press/psychology journals and when pps demanded that the scientist would check on the wellbeing of the person getting shocked, the "scientist" would pretend to go see if he was okay. I think there has also been a replication where for ethical reasons they only went upto 120V where they finished the experiment, and another study looked at a computer simulated version of the experiment.
there is quite a lot of interesting new "takes" on Milgram's research. People have found, for example, that he didn't do exactly what he told the press/psychology journals and when pps demanded that the scientist would check on the wellbeing of the person getting shocked, the "scientist" would pretend to go see if he was okay. I think there has also been a replication where for ethical reasons they only went upto 120V where they finished the experiment, and another study looked at a computer simulated version of the experiment.
They did one on conformity to. Slightly similar to asch. The one where the all pretended they were under hypnosis, and had to "become" animals. Tricked scott into it.
They did one on conformity to. Slightly similar to asch. The one where the all pretended they were under hypnosis, and had to "become" animals. Tricked scott into it.
Really? I must have missed that one!
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Its completely ripped off (Mischel, W, & Gilligan, C. (1964). Delay of gratification, motivation for the prohibited gratification, and responses to temptation. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 69, 411-417) this study. I wonder if Walter Mischel got any royalties from it?
Its completely ripped off (Mischel, W, & Gilligan, C. (1964). Delay of gratification, motivation for the prohibited gratification, and responses to temptation. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 69, 411-417) this study. I wonder if Walter Mischel got any royalties from it?
I'll have a look......
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I think a scientifically sounds version was done on french TV, although there was some contraversy over the ethics of it. Tv shows can do what they like (this is how derren brown gets to replicate the study), but to actually have it published in a psychology journal it needs ethics aproval. I can link you the article if your interested.
I remember reading that in 'The Psychologist' magazine. I think they cut it off the air half way through the show. The ethics of the French Psychological Society differ a bit from the BPS.