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Monday, August 04, 2008

Null Hypothesis | Strange But True - Top ten unethical psychology experiments

Null Hypothesis | Strange But True


THE NULL'S TOP TEN UNETHICAL PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENTS(click on the links for the inside story)



The Bystander Effect
Classic research that sorted the good Samaritans from the bad eggs - which one are you? 1/5

Universal Facial Expressions
Do emotions evoke universal facial expressions or do we all have different gurning styles? 2/5

The Addictiveness of Drugs
A simple experiment - give a monkey some drugs and wait and see what happens.  2/5

MK-Ultra
The CIA are probably the last people you expect to be giving away free drugs, and setting up brothels in the process.  3/5

The Standford Prison Experiment
Create a false prison, randomly assign volunteers as prisoners or guards, let the brutality begin. 3/5

The Monster Study
If you criticise a child's every move, you can make them stutter. Evil b b b b b b b b bastards!  4/5

Curing Homosexuality
Drugs, electricity and gay porn; sounds like the recipe for a complete disaster.  4/5

The Well of Despair
How to get yourself a bad reputation in science - socially torture monkeys for a living.  4/5

Milgram's Obedience Study
How far would you go to inflict pain if someone in authority was telling you to do it?  4/5

Little Albert
Give a child a pet rat and then teach them to be scared to death every time they go near it.  5/5

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