10 Behavioral Experiments That Went Terribly Wrong

[@emccoy]

As a child my father who was working on his phd in geriatric psychology would tell me experiments like these as bed time stories, and he would end them with. "And that's why we now have ethics committees."

[@artemisa2186]

Interesting 🙂

[@ericisprobablyfullofshit7797]

Beats the hell out of Cinderella. ;)

[@OspreyKnight]

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[@neoqwerty]

I wish I could have heard that... I can trade you my dad's EMT stories?

[@emccoy]

@@neoqwerty then you would get my mom's nursing stories at dinner. So I don't know how much better it would be. XD

[@DinahIsMyGal]

That "Third Wave" teacher is awesome, He applied his teaching in a way that would truly sink in. When it appeared that he was losing control the way he handled it was so smart, Showing a screen of static and then showing them the atrocities of the Nazis was powerful. Those young people were truly taught a lesson that they will never forget. He taught them to be independent thinkers instead of followers.

[@sherylcascadden4988]

I seem to remember a movie/documentary made about this. I would have seen it between 1972 and 1978.....

[@sunnysea24]

I for one found it refreshing that the Stanford Prison Experiment wasn't mentioned because that's been covered to death by this point.

[@randid.c3558]

Yeah.I like how this channel covers the lesser known things more than the widely known topics and such.

[@spacecadet35]

What I find interesting was that the Stanford Prison Experiment was repeated recently; with the same results.

[@Byakurenfan]

And proven to have been fabricated.

[@spacecadet35]

@@Byakurenfan- So if the Stanford Experiment was fabricated, does this mean they fabricated the results on the repeat of this experiment, even though the repeat of this experiment was trying to show that the results of the first experiment were no longer true?

[@Byakurenfan]

@@spacecadet35 can you link the article I have a hard time beliveing that it would get past ethics boards because even though the stanfered experment fabricated the results not everyone knows it was fabricated.

[@gremlininblue2601]

9:50 what did Freud NOT associate with genitalia lol

[@whatabouttheearth]

@Rob M Not always, he was a little pathological

[@scotthansen1442]

vaginas

[@FlyingDwarfman]

Fraternal and fraternal-like relationships, maybe? From the little Psych I learned in my couple low-level classes, that's what I can remember. I vaguely recall some case study I think he did on orphanages and comparing the lack of pair-bonding he encountered.

[@MarsCBG]

im pretty sure the only thing he didn't associate with sex was death. And I mean that. He literally viewed death as the complete opposite of life/sex. And even then he called it the death drive. It's a wild ride to read up on it.

[@kyriss12]

@@MarsCBG And yet death might be one of the things most closely entwined with sex. Nothing makes you want to embrace life quite as much as being forced to confront your mortality.

[@chrissilsby4312]

The last makes the statement of "Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it "

[@moekamil1613]

How profound. You must be very perceptive.

[@violethatchell3796]

The thing was though, they did know the history. They'd just learned it in his class and a kid made the comment that they could never be brainwashed like that, and that's what made him try it.

[@wordforger]

Yep. I kinda hate how we teach the buildup to WWII in school because it's so tainted by hindsight that it completely ignores the lesson we should take from it. The German people didn't just wake up one morning and decide to be evil. They didn't just see the frowning Hitler in uniform pictures we get in our school textbooks. They saw him grinning, waving, and kissing babies while he wore a normal suit. They let themselves be led by someone who seemed strong enough to handle the problems they saw. And slowly the truth eroded. And slowly more became willing to lash out at the marginalized people their dictator hated... until they had so cut themselves off from their compassion to others that they participated in the Holocaust.

[@zriyazira]

Actually Milgram's shock experiment showed people were willing to listen to authority even when the known consequences could potentially kill or harm a person. The experiment was repeated years later (without the threat of potentially killing someone at least from the subject's viewpoint) and it showed those who knew of the original shock experiment were less likely to listen to orders they knew could harm someone.

[@robertthomas5906]

@@moekamil1613 And yet it keeps on happening.

[@emstratman]

What did Freud NOT associate with genitalia? 🙄

[@sarahdebardeleben1536]

His cigars

[@cookeymonster83]

He associated actual genitals with food. So the answer is, genitals

[@holdenbauer1255]

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"

[@MrLoftyDreams]

Pouring concrete...... Oh no, he did do that one too.

[@thefourshowflip]

Funny enough...penises. 🤣

[@KingQwertzlbrmpf]

Unfortunatly the joker is right about one thing: "Madness is like gravity. All it takes is a little push."

[@Loralanthalas]

Same for bravery, actually. Yen-Yang.

[@soxpeewee]

If someone analyzed Freud they would have institutionalized him.

[@soxpeewee]

@deekat3279 Coke addiction was one of the least of his issues. He was also sexually obessed with his own daughter and a bunch of other weird stuff.

[@Alizudo]

The man who invented the cure for rabies also spent years of his life cutting dogs apart while they were alive. Just because he was crazy, doesn't mean he wasn't a genius.

[@KimJongUn_greatleader]

@DrMossydog yeah. When I was in psychology one of my teachers gushed over him every chance she got. He stole other people's ideas too. The guy was definitely not mentally stable.

[@101Queenisis]

AMEN!! We still act as if someone can't be evil, a genius, And Charmingly Ruthless..

[@braddavis419]

Freud wanted to keep the population normal and keep the nut job folks out. I wish it had been implemented

[@BacklumChaam]

The sheep like mentality of humans has always fascinated and terrified me.

[@AyubuKK]

choccy1984 Ikr. It’s fascinatingly scary.

[@stevenschnepp576]

Turns out, we really are just animals.

[@GenghisKhan-Shaman]

Brought home terrifyingly today with the absolute craven obedience to the totalitarian dictates used to control people during this fake CCP virus false flag!!

[@Bruh-hq1hx]

@@GenghisKhan-Shamanthe irrationality of humans can be seen here

[@thefourshowflip]

“The sleep of reason brings forth monsters.” -C. Hitchens

[@marsay82]

We read the book "The Wave" in middle school. It has stuck with me ever since and is one of the reasons I became a historian.

[@thomasr7129]

I saw the movie when I was around 15... It made an impression.

[@austy_whasty7941]

I thought it was interesting as well

[@robertnett9793]

Yup. That - along with Animal Farm. Didn't became a historian, though - but I am a very interested layman. It's crazy what people do again and again :D

[@Crazael]

@@thomasr7129 I liked the movie. I thought it's version of the reveal was pretty well done.

[@jmace2424]

I immediately thought of the Wave from the title too! Just fascinating

[@Sakari99med]

Number 5 sounds a lot like that case years ago where a fast food manager got a call from someone claiming to be a detective and was told that one of their female employees was stealing and they were on their way to arrest her. However, he needed the manager to keep the girl isolated and the detective would instruct him on how to perform a proper search before he got there. The poor girl ended up naked and molested, held against her will with absolutely no one willing to help her. The "detective" obviously never showed up, and when real cops got involved, all the managers and employees basically stuck to the story of "I didn't want to do it, I was told to." Not sure what happened in the long run, but I think they never caught the fake detective.

[@jerry321999]

That was on "Law and order: SVU" GUEST STARRED Robin Willuams. He was a very creepy bad guy.

[@stevenschnepp576]

... They really didn't hire for their critical thinking skills. I can tell.

[@rautamiekka]

"Naked, molested, and no one wanted to help." When the innocent become the villain through the villain. Any sane person would object to the "naked", and in particular to the "molested" part.

[@borntogazeintonightskies]

*Looks at the thumbnail* Operation Midnight Climax? Sounds like a porno *Listens to the story* Yeahhh .. that’s a porno

[@PeterGregoryKelly]

What the "black budget" portion of the federal budget pays for, the part no one is allowed to know. What else does NOT come to light?

[@Lizzard2060]

but a CIA sponsored Porno, can't beat that!

[@borntogazeintonightskies]

@@Lizzard2060 No, you certainly can't! XD

[@charliejeans2413]

And what experiments and trials are we still be subjected too today in the name of medicine or science ?

[@JexporDiamonds]

@@charliejeans2413 well if you are paranoid enough and dare dig into what you shouldn't. You would find out. Either at the cost of your peaceful life or life itself lmao. Or the 3rd unknown outcome WHO knows

[@darkwinter6028]

And this is why we now have mandatory ethics review boards... 🤨

[@Oceanbreeze-d9w]

Evil bastards! The C.I.A still is around!!

[@cathygrandstaff1957]

Freud associated nosebleeds with genetalia? Him and the entire nation of Japan.

[@Parents_of_Twins]

Master Roshi must have had dozens of transfusions by now. At least Anime is entertaining though nothing that Freud has claimed is entertaining.

[@alilhard]

And it's not entirely wrong as there is erectile tissue in the nose.

[@chesh1rek1tten]

Didn't Genghis Khan die of a nose bleed on his wedding night?

[@redbear2113]

And some African tribes.

[@KingJohnMichael]

@@alilhard waht? That is not true at all stop spreading lies

[@cheesygrilkaboomyawoman]

When you want to do a fun little experiment and then you turn a large portion of your school into Nazis

[@YeeSoest]

Äs ä görmän it is my düty to införm you thät we're reälly gläd äböüt the resülts since they shöw höw eäsy it is tö fäll för än ideölögy implemented by äüthörities. Damn, that comment messed my up my phone's vocabulary big time^^

[@jamesrountree3991]

@@YeeSoest and now they sell "diversity is our strength" and things the authorities get to decide are "hate speech"............fascism doesn't HAVE to be "right wing" or on the outset evil looking- watch your blind spot!!

[@amethystdawn9476]

James Rountree 🙄🙄🙄

[@HRHtheDude]

Communism operates in exactly the same way. Communism and national socialism really aren't all that different.

[@robertwyatt2444]

Theres a movie about it. It was made in the early 80's maybe? It's on you tube. Its calld the wave.

[@neemzito3159]

rip Tusko the Elephant.

[@PTS156]

malsimian tRIP

[@pepelemoko01]

Did anybody stop to think what damage a full-size African bull elephant on acid got loose ,in a city.

[@freshrot420]

Hahaha! Based on the dosage they gave it, I'ma guess they didn't think of that either.

[@wylde678]

Coming this summer to a theater near you...

[@Thoralmir]

Assuming of course that Tusker wouldn't have just spent the whole time licking things. You never know with LSD.

[@MouseGoat]

why would you even give a elephant LSD in the first place

[@ehsn]

@@MouseGoat I blame Dumbo

[@saldan3985]

The Teacher that got first place is an amazing teacher. He taught his students in an interactive and interesting way, when he realizes that he made a mistake he didn't messed it up more nor did he just left his students. He pulled a 180 and manage to make his mistake a teaching event. Amazing!

[@KnugLidi]

And he still should have been fired. His 'fix' still resulted in many of those kids being seriously messed up. This is why teaching plans have to be approved before implementation.

[@michaelkelly4131]

Number 1 sounds like it went incredibly right. Every one of those students got a first hand experience... being so easily swept up in a radical, tyrannical movement. I’d love to have been a fly on the wall when the “rally” took place and they’d all realized they’d been so easily manipulated. Hard way to learn an important lesson, no doubt, but the prof got his point across and hammered it home to the extreme.

[@lindinle]

And now the teachers are turning the kids into facists

[@lonewolflife6938]

Read the book or watch the movie....called The Wave

[@punkwrestle]

It would be really interesting to see how the mind works in the students that became the resistance!

[@silvertheelf]

All one has to do is quote Ian Malcom from Jurassic Park. “Scientists don’t ask if they should, they only ask if they can do it.”

[@stevenschnepp576]

Yeah, no. There's a few bastards, but most scientists are fairly ethical people.

[@Bruh-hq1hx]

If you are a crazy scientist yes

[@SuperAnya2000]

Ethics evolve, when people realise that what was done is needs a course correction, but not enough to warrant a change the law. Practicing ethical behaviour is voluntary. Laws is passed when society has had one too many examples of unethical behaviour, and it has to be corrected forcibly, by authorities.

[@thatguy4087]

Very far from the original quote

[@silvertheelf]

@@thatguy4087, oh, your that guy.

[@thefatherrabbit]

The Third Wave experiment was actually a success in my opinion. I remember taking a class in high school and watching The Wave, which really helped to put it all into perspective. Although Jones may have felt that he was losing control of the experiment, he did regain that control in the end and, in the process, he created a very powerful teaching tool for later students to learn from.

[@charamia9402]

I remember watching that film in school too, it's one of those whose message really stuck

[@stephenlopez4172]

Studying this stuff is great for D&D writing, but the FBI agent tracking my phone is a little worried...

[@robertnett9793]

Let's throw the hero party in a big ugly Milgram experiment and see how fart they are willing to go, when ordered by an authority? Seems like a fun friday night :D ... allthough, an encounter with elephants high as a kite might also bring some merriment :D

[@punkwrestle]

The FBI doesn’t track your phone. Homeland security does!

[@pr0xZen]

Damn. That Nr 1 story gave me flashbacks from quite a mindboggling and scary experience. Back in spring of 2004, when I was around 20, at my technical college. A smaller school, maybe 200 students. The school was composed of 3 buildings joined in a horseshoe shape, with the "courtyard" in the middle. During class one day, two large black vans came in fast, to a tire-screeching stop in the middle of the courtyard. Seated on the window row on the 3rd flow, I saw then come in. Out poured what I can only describe as 25-30 paramilitary soliders/operatives - all black military-style uniforms, vests, flak helmets - the works. They split in 3 and entered each building. We could hear them down stairs and halls, going to each classroom and lab. Eventually they came to ours. Two or three, can't remember precisely, with immense authority "busted" into the room, and ordered everyone to leave their things, line up single file and proceed to evaucate in front of them to the schools gym. Everyone was nervous, some seemed frightened, but the "soliders" commanded enormous authority, without really inducing fear-behavior or panic. With all students and employees assembled in the gym, these people stood guard, blocking all exits, forcing everyone to sit on the floor. 3 of them were on an improvised podium 2 men and a woman. The woman opened with an explanation that they had taken control over public unstitutions. We should remain calm, obey instructions given, and prepare for the annoucement of a new government. The gym with probably close to 300 people in it all students, employees and "soliders" in total - was dead silent after a small wave of gasps. The woman reveived a call on her cellphone, and retterated. The two men stood in wait for what felt like forever, but was probably 5 minutes. The woman returns. She looks across the room, smiles, and ask everyone what date it is. It was april 1st. She thrn proceeded to tell us this was a hoax, and hold a 10 minute spech - turns out the whole thing was A) a hoax, and B) a recruitment campaign to the national armed forces, in particular in regsrds to anbig push into and expansion program for, military cyberintelligence, and counter-terrorism. You never forget an experience like that. I live in Scandinavia ffs. Our police isn't even armed unless an individual and specific situation's danger profile mandates it. Long story short, I changed my educational path that day.

[@matgeezer2094]

What's up with your spelling?

[@pr0xZen]

@@matgeezer2094 What do you mean?

[@matgeezer2094]

@@pr0xZen really? Numerous spelling mistakes.

[@pr0xZen]

@@matgeezer2094 English is my 4th language. That's made fairly clear within the post. I'm so incredibly sorry that my spelling is so horrible that you're unable to cope. Just let me know a final figure when the bills from your trauma care and pychotherapy arrive, having caused you such trauma, it is surely most appropriate that I cover your therapy expenses.

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

The teacher when his experiment started to get out of control: _I did nazi that coming!_

[@cynzix]

Conway79 Can Jew believe it?

[@LeftToWrite006]

It happened too fascist to believe.

[@sebastianelytron8450]

@keith cunningham It legit is.

[@scifino1]

Faschisten hier los?

[@Chetglass_]

@keith cunningham Lol the Thirdwave experiment is echoed in the actions of the far left.

[@user_16309]

“...hell is other people...” wow!

[@Nyonics]

it's a quote from Sartre's (600+ page) essay, "On Being and Nothingness." The basic idea is that the way we experience ourselves as subject is necessarily different from the way others see us as object. No matter how hard you try to articulate yourself to someone else or get them to understand you the way you understand yourself, their view of you will always be at least a little different from how you really want to be seen. This fact leads to anxiety about the power that other people have over defining us through their observations (being and observing are mutually exclusive here). We also lose the numbers game here, since the way we see ourselves is 1 out of as much as 8 billion or so, whereas the way we're constantly mis-defined or misinterpreted by those untold numbers of people skews things away from our own perspective. Because of all of this, Sartre says, about our inability to be truly understood by others, that "hell is other people." ...at least, this is what I think I remember from our discussion of the relevant section of the essay in an existentialism class I took in 2006.

[@laikapupkino1767]

PLACE

[@PIcoAirBearings]

The mice utopia experiment didn’t “go wrong”, it did exactly what it was designed to do.

[@leadpaintchips9461]

@@metanumia So what were the differences between U-25 and the others? It does sound like it caters to the basic needs of the animals with enough room and resources to sustain the mice indefinitely.

[@anna-flora999]

@@leadpaintchips9461 from what I heard, they didn't give the rodents anything to do. Basically, they were so bored they became insane

[@megaflamer]

@@leadpaintchips9461 lets see, for starters there wasn't nearly enough room for a mice population of that size. The environment was one designed to force the mice to interact in ways they are not naturally inclined to. There was no natural elements in the enclosure, in fact the guy responsible had previously made natural enclosures that worked pretty well. The rodents had zero things to do beyond eating, sleeping and procreating. The food was all in the centre of the enclosure, encouraging the rodents to fight over it and on top it would cause a pileup when they tried to eat. There were a few more things that at present escape my memory but the entire experiment was more or less expected to turn out as it did, it was a wholly artificial construct that wasn't anticipated to last all that long. When making stable 'Utopias' careful consideration is made of how rodents act in nature and how their social dynamic tends to be, not to mention making the enclosures feel at home for them without causing undue stress

[@hannahl8081]

When the experiment was made public, it was sensationalized to be an accurate depiction of a human future if we continued to live in large metropolitan cities like New York, when, in fact, the results are more akin to what happens when people are imprisoned

[@steelysims]

@@hannahl8081 I think it applies to both

[@PrincessAshley972]

I remember The 3rd Wave as a book in my high school, which they said was based on actual events

Today we call it Cultural Marxism and it's still used in universities today.

[@filmcameras4evr45]

Try the film. It’s in German, which makes it even more powerful tbh. Ignore the idiot above, he has no idea wtf he’s taking about

[@jeff7.629]

I remember they made an after school special about it in the late 70's early 80's. I vaguely remember having to watch it and give a report on it as a class assignment.

[@krasniusha]

There's also a movie "The Wave"

[@carewser]

@@krasniusha There's also fans at sporting events that all sit up and wave at the same time but I don't know what it's called when they do that

[@1969GrassHoppa]

How did those kids feel after finding out that they were REALLY part of an experiment and got to see how badly things could go by watching the film? That's some REAL mentorship. If I can do this to you, and I love you, what can someone that doesn't give a damn about you do to you?👏👏👏

[@robertnett9793]

Yes. I think the 3d Wave experiment was one of the really successful ones.

[@aaroncurtis8545]

Yes, we westerners do like our excuses for sociopathy.

[@ximoklim]

There is a documentary out there in which former third wave students talk about their experiences, go watch it and see for yourself. (Spoilers: they are not very happy about it)

[@fantasyqwest]

To answer that question: exactly what was/is/will be done😔

[@hazeldecker622]

You could definitely do a part 2 to this video. (at least)

[@robertnett9793]

Yeah. Man has done some ... interesting things, shall we say :D

[@maeve4686]

I fully support a step by step study with this enforced procedure: 1) Provide in written form your test. 2) Apply, inject, digest, inhale any drug or medication intended for the on yourself FIRST !!!! 3) See #2 4) Delay procedure for a week or more. 5) Results of #2 before proceeding on the animal. 6) If you get extremely ill, or die, cancel experiment.

[@kevinloving3141]

5:06 pyschiatrists sound like they are the ones who need pyschiatric help

[@briancrawford8751]

Most of them are pretty crazy. In my state, there was a psychiatrist who showed up to work in a bustier, panties, a garter belt, hose, and high heels. That's all the guy wore. He then proceeded to act completely high, by all accounts. I don't understand why they didn't jerk his licence right then.

[@brettmcmahan1353]

Kevin Loving funny coment. When I was in University it was common thought that all the students studying Psychology were doing so as to find out what was wrong with them 🤔

[@kevinloving3141]

@@brettmcmahan1353 😂 😂 😂 💪 💪 💪 💪 💪 👊 👊 👊 👊 👊 👊 👊 👊 👊 👊 👊

[@briancrawford8751]

@@brettmcmahan1353 Generally, it's about half of them or maybe 60%. The rest are just looking for an easy major. Some of them are pre-meds looking for a softer major than biology or chemistry so they can focus on getting A's in their pre-med courses.

[@Veeger]

Many extreme personality disorders demonstrated by psychiatrists. They are only people (which some seem to forget)

[@LordProteus]

As a disciple of science and progress, I acknowledged that Science is a convenient bastion for the truly amoral.

[@lindinle]

Rapture. Nuff said.

[@oriolesfan61]

Anti intellectualism

[@aaroncurtis8545]

@@oriolesfan61 no, it's anti-sociopathy. And if you don't see that then, umm, I have a diagnosis for you.

[@oriolesfan61]

@@aaroncurtis8545 no you actually don't. Grow up.

[@aaroncurtis8545]

@@oriolesfan61 you see, I did. I suggest that you attempt the same.

[@zmanjace1364]

I went into this one not overly interested as I've seen plenty of videos on this topic but you found some new ones I've not heard of. Very interesting. Plus your polish on these videos is always top of the line. Nice work as always.

[@reggiep75]

I was expecting the Stanford Prison Experiment to pop up here somewhere but thankfully there's been more other interesting experiments that deserve some more of the limelight.

[@ninelives4738]

So was I. Pleasantly surprised. Really interesting vid

[@JohnHudert1]

reggiep75 well, Palo Alto made the list! Crazy seems to like that neighborhood!

[@reggiep75]

John - Yep, they really do have a little more than an interest in poking things with sticks. It must be the heat, salt water and anything else leaking out of holes in the ground.

[@BuddyLuvve]

I was really surprised it wasn't on the list as well! It ranks right up here with these, too.

[@MorganBF1]

I’d listen to this guy read an encyclopedia.

[@howardmaryon-davis666]

Well, he kind of does......

[@AbhisarRawat]

I like your effect

[@moocow2699]

Those mice sound a lot like us at the moment. They just needed Instagram....

[@9HighFlyer9]

Exactly what part sounds like us?

[@patrick8116]

Agreed, look at the celebrity worship culture.

[@StarlasAiko]

HighFlyer all of it.

[@loraxdavewalters2696]

Another argument for the benefit of guns. Breeding out morality seems to be what's going on, probably by accident. Perhaps AI dating apps will solve this, but probably not. When is the next apocalypse?

[@StarlasAiko]

Lorax Dave Walters soon, I hope

[@chuckschultz3646]

The third wave experiment is a little more terrifying than i initially expected

[@robertnett9793]

Yep. Humans as social animals are very susceptible to groups and group dynamics. Fascism is group dynamci cranked up to 11 basically. So yeah. It's pretty dangerous. Just watch the 'toxic' parts of any fandom, fad, subculture, sports club, what have you....

[@natalie8212]

I had a history teacher in high school who had to take maternity leave. On the first day our new substitute showed up, he presented up with a test to "ascertain where we were at with our studies". Then he left the room, and said he'd be back in 20 minutes. The questions were ridiculously hard, things only a scholar would know. One student started becoming visibly upset and angry, saying how "this is bullshit, we don't have to take this. This guy is new in *our* environment, he can't kick us around like this!" Other students started agreeing and it got to the point where everyone, ( including me) tore up our test papers and were ready to stand up against this guy and his unfair practices. Around that time the sub came back in, told us to calm down. He had spoken to that first student beforehand and planned out the whole thing. It was a brilliant introductory not only into the facts of WWII, but the psychology behind why and how it happened.

[@sportysbusiness]

It was also a brilliant introduction into the psychology behind how easy it is for anyone (governments in particular) to program us into a particular belief. Particularly easy if you watch government and industry sponsored TV 'programs'...

[@tesmith47]

But the reason for manipulating people into that war was the capitalist greed !!!

[@Serai3]

"The Wave" was a film done in the 70's about that last experiment.

[@yallneedjesus5465]

The third wave experiment sounds exactly like colleges have become now

[@Serai3]

Oh Christ, please take your wingnut whining elsewhere.

[@Saisem3]

@@Serai3 what did the Nazis do with proof that was so wrong

[@Saisem3]

@@Serai3 he’s right

[@killerkale2769]

Midnight climax sounds like fancy way to say wet dream

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

#10 - so, the pretty ones can't take care of themselves but don't have to work for anything? Sounds about right.

[@shiny_x3]

Sounds good to me. :-)

[@filmcameras4evr45]

Nicholas Farrell sounds like capitalism tbh

[@MrSherod1]

#10 is mind blowing.

[@richardgerbes7509]

@@filmcameras4evr45 really? Capitalism? The mouse's had pure equality, enough room and food for all... Just shows that even in the animal kingdom natural hierarchys form,

[@FaceRollinOvO]

Fact

[@DuckiesDad08]

I imagine one weird scientist just going “that one’s sexy, that one’s sexy. Ooh. Look at herrrr”. And that’s how they identified the beautiful ones.

[@edwardreyes2419]

Operation Midnight Climax sounds like an awesome sequel to Michael Scott's awarding winning film, Threat Level Midnight.

[@dhelix85]

The last experiment should be a class. Knowing how easy it is to get swept up in those kinds of things would benefit so many people.

[@FaceRollinOvO]

This was a great video. I love this channel. One of the best on youtube. Thank you for making these videos

[@StarlasAiko]

We are living in a world that has combined 10 and 1.

[@anarchyantz1564]

Now days behavioral studies on animals are called watching the Kardashians. From what I gather they also spend their entire existence grooming, eating, sleeping and reproducing for no reason.

[@luciusvorenus9445]

This comment is vastly underrated.

[@annamossity8879]

🤣🤣🤣

[@undeadladybug7723]

I had to read a book about The Third Wave back in high school, and I just sat there thinking how glad I was that none of the teachers at my school were stupid/crazy enough to try replicating it.

[@longshot7601]

Hahahaha. The Universe 25 'beautiful ones' completely lost touch with social norms. Sounds like the Hollywood types.

[@greyrifterrellik5837]

That last one sounds like it *started* to go wrong, but the guy managed to harness it at the end to make his original point and goal even stronger

[@ShannonRochon]

My question is how horrified was that teacher?

[@ferfiti]

They made a movie about it called "The Wave". It's pretty cool

[@lonewolflife6938]

ferfiti also a book

[@EvilEvilMonkey]

Due to many issues I was part of several behaviour studies as a child........... This still makes me shiver to this day. The moment a five year old points out a mirror that is sneezing and talking kinda fudges most studies.

[@SarcasticDragonGaming]

Checked my notification, saw the thumbnail, and I blinked so hard I could’ve sworn I could hear it.

[@therealjammit]

I think I heard it.

[@mrsamypeart3117]

As a psychology student (at A level, now studying criminology) I found this video rather intreguing. It was really refreshing to not hear about the same studies that I had previously looked at. I do think an honourable mention should have gone to Zimbardos prision experiment and milgrams authority experiment (with the electric shocks) as both of these experiments would really perplex people who are interested in behavioural psychology. I have noticed though that most behavioural experiments were conducted on animals which means that they cant be made generalisable to humans, where as milgram and zimbardo looked more at the human eliment to behavioural psych. Very interesting video though! Well done!

[@MomMom4Cubs]

Why no mention of the Harlow studies? The Pit of Despair is worse than what Delgado did.

[@ZuluLifesaBeech-]

What were the Harlow studies, B. LaMou?

[@larapalma3744]

@@MomMom4Cubs Yes absolutely disgusting

[@larapalma3744]

@@MomMom4Cubs But telling about the effects of neglect

[@larapalma3744]

@@MomMom4Cubs Then, with no cloth, they became psycho

[@MomMom4Cubs]

@@larapalma3744 I don't think so. None chose the wire mother, so those monkeys all died from malnutrition. The Pit of Despair made them psychotic.

[@DarknetDude]

I found the first entry particularly fascinating; one can easily draw correlations between these mice and human societies. Perhaps, without hardship, the population would expand, rapidly. And, after the inevitable destruction, only the "beautiful" ones would survive.

[@DarknetDude]

I don't think society is permanently sustainable.

[@Melissa0774]

I wonder if the first one may have been at least some of the inspiration for the book Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH?

[@PeterGregoryKelly]

It seems to describe modern conditions in western countries with males withdrawing as MGTOW monks and the soshoku danshi (herbivore men) in Japan. High real estate prices seem to signal the "over population" switch. There are signs of similar developments in men dipping out in China and Iran. Social tendencies are undergirded by biological realities. Parallel to to this is the growing army of incels. It says that there is little point in shaming, scapegoating and labeling as this and that and going off on all sorts of hysterias if, collectively, people are reacting predictably to environmental triggers in a biological context. We are after all just animals.

[@WaltonGFilm]

I believe there is a link. I vaguely remember not what, but some part of the experiment was legit named "NIMH". I think that was the location or something. It's an acronym.

[@denisenova7494]

Yes the movie is based on this experiment. It‘s Miss Brisbee afaik

[@ryanburnertb2302]

@@denisenova7494 Brisby in the movie, Frisby in the book

[@socialmediasocialmedia2937]

Targeted Individual "program" especially when the targeted individual doesnt become broken ppl such as perps/gangstalkers.

[@tinktheartist50]

Well done to the 22nd nurse who broke the mould and thought for herself.

[@tammileroux3329]

I had heard in the past that if a nurse goes against the doctor's orders she/he could lose her/his job. If she/he reports on the doctor for doing something wrong she/he can lose her/his job and no one will hire her/him anywhere. Whistleblowers are not always protected.

[@Loralanthalas]

So many people "know" the rules without any understanding OF the rules.

[@YeeSoest]

Oh Simon... The lean at 5:24 is just magnificent!! You almost dropped out of the side of me telly there...^^

[@joshuapatrick682]

wow...the Mouse Utopia sounds like human society to a large extent.

[@cucumber623]

operation midnight climax sounds like waking up during the night and knocking one out, dont judge weve all had that midnight horn and no one there to give a hand lol!

[@peterv1318]

cucumber - LMFAO!!!

[@davidhenderson3400]

I have to wonder what experiments like this that we do not know about? Some may even be going on right now.

[@MrrMechassult]

As a student of psychology I did enjoy that video Simon. Also you could do a top 100 video on this subject. There was the Stanford Prison Experiment as well as the Milgrim study just to name 2 famous ones.

[@suzannemenuet947]

I love things like this. You should definitely do more!

[@shanebond1540]

Simon Whistler that last one was the best!!!! I truly love and appreciate ur content

[@Hercules1-v9m]

So basically number ten is our current reality.

[@filmcameras4evr45]

Original American aye, capitalism at its finest

[@TheRealNormanBates]

@@filmcameras4evr45 Someone doesn't know how to spell socialism.

[@lloydmckay3241]

@@TheRealNormanBates And someone likes fascism. And perhaps they don't know very much about socialism. Likely.

[@powerbeard5653]

i dont think it has anything to do with a political system... its a natural result when a species has lasting abundant resources and can procreate indefinitely without anything stopping them. which isn't quite reality for humans, but there really hasn't been anything significant slowing our reproduction for a looong time.

[@neiana]

@@lloydmckay3241 It was literally set up as a socialist state, though. There was nothing at ALL in the experiment that resembled capitalism. AT. ALL.

[@Ivan-cv4dl]

The last one is quite similar to the Stanford prison experiment, the fact that college students are so impressionable and easily subject to manipulation is a bit unnerving

[@JeffDeWitt]

It explains a lot about what is going on on college campuses today.

[@josecipriano3048]

Ivan Not college students but right about anyone, even you and me.

[@devincolborn523]

#5 actually sounds more like a success as it showed how incompetent most of the nurses were when it came to following safety guidelines.

[@AmayaElls]

I think it shows less about the nurses and more about the system. In hospitals Nurse expertise means nothing (even though they're highly trained). They're conditioned to do whatever a doctor says and a doctor that doesn't like them could probably get them fired. The wording of that section suggested few were willing to give it at first, but the "doctor" on the other end was able to convince them... I worry how many doctors are actually taking advantage of this power imbalance to push through inadvisable treatments or avoid paperwork.

[@metamorphicorder]

Well, they do have that card game to get back to, so....

[@WolvenSpectre]

I remember a show discussing the Tusko the Elephant LSD experiment and they showed some evidence that they were hypothesizing that the reason some Bull Elephants would go violent was the exposure to high amounts of LSD in their food sources, which is where some of the rumors of old Uncle CIA going "making things violent with drugs... YES PLEASE!" and giving support to the testing. Rumors in the research community at the time was the tester was convinced that pharmacology was a shortcut to becoming super-human and thus was bullish on pushing boundaries.

[@downsouth00]

#2 I think more than 925k was owed to the patients

[@riceracm]

I found it refreshing that not only did they leave out Stanford prison experiment, but also the Milgram obedience experiment....I am so tired of hearing those being continually rehashed

[@basit147]

"This Video Is Incomplete Without Project MK Ultra"

[@null0byte573]

I've always found the Millgram Experiment (which was not mentioned here) and The Third Wave experiment to be incredibly chilling and terrifyingly illustrative of just how...willing...people tend to be when faced with Authority and "fit in" and, "conform," for fear of being rebuked or ostracized by either the authority figure, or society.

[@jamesbizs]

“Vast majority of relapse after being taken off medication”. YOU DON’T SAY!!

[@CatrionaCharles]

j p it’s like they needed it or something 😂

[@Mortablunt]

In other news, diabetics taken off insulin tend to die!

[@KyuuTomoyaki]

There was a 1981 book called The Wave about The Third Wave that was required reading for me in high school. It was one of my favorite books that year. So fascinating.

[@jeffreyrobinson2310]

As a sociology major I found this quite intresting

[@moodycrab77]

Super wow, on the last story, have you done a longer form vid on that?

[@emilomnic316]

Nobody: Scientists: Lets do some crazy experiments that certainly will not backfire at all. For science!

[@Moribax85]

while i admit certain experiments were a mistake, you have to understand that who doesn't fail doesn't learn, after all, you have a mistake to thank for anti-biotics, because one evening Alexander Fleming forgot to seal a Petri dish, that got contaminated with a mould during the night, and that lead to the discovery of penicillin. or what about the reason you don't have to have a doctor twist your arm to see if it's broken, with all the pain that involves, because two people named Curie started experimenting with electromagnetic radiation and discovered the proprieties of x-rays, with Marie Curie dying basically of cancer as a result of her experiments... before shitting on science, stop a second to think how you benefit from it, as a little guideline, you probably wouldn't even reached puberty without it, you would have died in your infancy for an infection, or a virus, or just starvation

[@emilomnic316]

Moribax85 Yeah, but I'm talking about the ones that went horribly wrong, not the ones that went horribly right. Thats the reference/joke/whatever. Tbh, science to me is like a double-edged sword. It has its benefits and pitfalls. Ethical and unethical angles. And....so....on...

[@taurusdragon4763]

yeah, scientist is stupid that way xD. _For the sake of science!_

[@CatrionaCharles]

Some scientists are scientists for a reason

[@PhilieBlunt666]

Because, SCIENCE!!!

[@carolinestannard30]

I was surprised that the stanford experiment wasn't in this video

[@Nyctophora]

That last one had a seed of hope though, in the resistance.

[@johnopalko5223]

#1 -- I have the same question for that teacher that I have for Darwin Award winners: What did you *think* was going to happen?!?

[@jackd7509]

Crazy how “the wave experiment” pertains to 2020 😅

[@TheHikeChoseMe]

the hospital experiment just shows how much authority drs are given. even today. if a dr says jump you are supposed to do it without question. ya ya they tell us we have to be patient advocates but when we do speak up, we are censured or fired.

[@sandramorrison99]

Why do i LOVE THIS CHANNEL????

[@carami6442]

Exactly what was wrong about the Hofling hospital experiment? No one actualy got hurt or traumatised and it seems like a valuable thing to know about human behavior.

[@norbertrottenari9986]

i remeber reading about that in my school, the novel actually. but what about the Stanford Prison Experiment?

[@carlkamuti]

We already know everything about the Stanford and Milgram experiments. I much preferred hearing about these more obscure ones, a couple of which I knew nothing about.

[@theangelbelow88]

Yeah I think it's overexposed by most people's opinion, almost everyone has heard about it

[@23093034]

@@carlkamuti I have never heard of the Milgram experiment.

[@Tevildo]

@@23093034 Basically, people will kill other people if ordered to do so by a suitable authority figure. Not exactly a surprising result, but disappointing from a moral perspective nevertheless.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

@@theangelbelow88 true, but it still fits perfectly. That said, I do like hearing about the less-known ones.

[@histrion2]

No Stanford Prison? No Milgram? Not even mentioned in passing? "Here are ten other than Stanford & Milgram…"

[@denisenova7494]

12:28 So they did an experiment on mind control and the patients became aroused and started flirting with the researchers? Oh, how come?

[@Michael_peanut]

By stimulating different parts of the brain using chips that give small electrical shocks. All participants were "willing" although willing wasn't defined as we define it today and surely, we wouldn't define an acute schizophrenic as a willing participant.

[@denisenova7494]

TheGreatPeanut: Yeah, you understood my joke perfectly.

[@vaibhav3902]

😂😂😂

[@Michael_peanut]

@@denisenova7494 oh lmao 😂😂

[@davegreenlaw5654]

On the flip-side of all this, there is one class experiment I recall being part of back in the 80's that was anything but horrible. We were studying the Declaration of Independence, and talked about how one minor change should be that "...for every right, there is an equal and appropriate responsibility." To that end, our teacher devised a simple experiment where we were allowed a few rights in the classroom (ones I remember being allowed to bring food into the class and having feet up on our desks) as long as everyone followed the basic rules - those being to make sure we cleaned up after ourselves, and had some paper and at least one pen or pencil. It got to the point where a few of the other students brought extra paper and pencils with them, and checked with all the other students just before class started to see if they had to pass them along to the students who had forgotten. I can't recall if that teacher had three or four classes, all of whom were doing the same experiment, but I do recall that my class lasted the longest at three weeks. (The other minor change that we all agreed on was that, in reality, it should read "...that all men are created equal, until by circumstance of their birth, they are made unequal." Both of those points were two of three that I will *always* remember from my days at that school.)

[@tesmith47]

It was racist when it was written

[@renekton410]

The mouse thing sounds like N.Y. and L.A. Rich men hord pretty women who spend all day grooming and don't care fore their young.

[@shawnakylashundahai3740]

Also known as hoes

[@rayadawn3535]

Wow. You sound like you know NOTHING about women.

[@renekton410]

@@rayadawn3535 you never met a gold digger? welcome to earth

[@kiragoldy4615]

@@rayadawn3535 you misunderstood the comment. He meant gold diggers. Not women in general.

[@briancrane7634]

My FAVORITE TopTenz EVER! Outlining in a few minutes the full depth of perversity, sadism and cruelty of the human species. (Apparently the CIA got its experiment ideas from reading dystopian dime novels)

[@MrInitialMan]

If I recall, that last one was made into a film, and at the big rally, the students were shown a picture of Adolf Hitler.

[@robertnett9793]

It was dramatisised in the movie version I think. The movies climax would have been to drawn out, if they did the speech the teacher gave and the whole documentation about the Third Reich.

[@cephy8102]

I remember watching a german movie called "Die Welle" back in school, 8/9th grade. Literally translates to "the wave", based on the same experiment. The first time I thought the movie was bad. When we watched it again the next year I just got straight up annoyed. Except for the last scene where that one guy gets shot. That one was funny.

[@tj6544]

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[@LB-py9ig]

Dr. John Money's experiments on David and Brian Reimer. The real horror isn't his controversies, it's the legacy section. Made me rethink *a lot.*

[@trainwhackk5321]

There‘s a german movie called „die welle“ or „the wave“ based on the last experiment mentioned in the video.

[@evilmark443]

This video reminded me of that scene in Ghostbusters 2 where Egon has two people waiting in a room for what they think is going to be marriage counseling while continually increasing the wait time and raising the temperature in the room, all as part of an experiment to see if their negative emotions will affect the environment in any way.

[@gaylonjohnson904]

Love the videos, keep them coming!!!!

[@Niv0505]

Your the only top 10 channel that actually talks about Interesting things, and isnt just half clickbait, half repeat what I said last video.