This clip shows that everyone is susceptible to advertising.
Month: July 2007
Derren Brown – Fate Chocolate Rolls
Derren shows The League of Gentlemen an experiment to do with fate.
Derren Brown – Paying with Blank Paper Money
While Derren is in New York he attempts to buy goods using blank paper money.
The Milgram Experiment
The Milgram experiment was a seminal series of social psychology exterments conducted at Yale University by psychologist Stanley Milgram. He measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.
Stanford Prison Experiment 1971
The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the human response to imposed social roles on behavior. It was conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University. Undergraduate volunteers played the roles of guards and prisoners living in a mock prison that was constructed in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.