Psychological f00d!

[mousch]

Yes, I used leetspeak and psychology in the same title. I liked the oxymoronics. If you haven't heard of it already, go read The Stanford Prison Experiment (http://www.prisonexp.org). It's an amazing adventure in psychology, and what can happen to normal people when they are assigned roles they normally would never explore.[/url]

[imported_shiola]

Yeah, some bloke was talking about it on CNN when the Iraqi prison thing was going on. I think a reality TV show was done in England with a prison being set up, and basically everyone went friggin nuts.

[mousch]

It's kinda like The Wave (it's a book read up here in Canada in Grade 9 by most kids, it was made into a movie... and it's pretty insane. And it's true; that's the crazy part) where it was only meant to be a simulation, but it got totally out of hand. and it's a short read- if you liked the spe, read The Wave.

[dontpanic]

I saw a German movie with the same premise. it was called Das Experiment. yeah, it was pretty freaky. the reason i rented it in the first place was because the lead is that cute lead guy from Run Lola Run.

[STARLADEAR]

i've been trying to get my hands on the stanford prison experiment video. without paying some insane fee for one viewing. i tried to get my library to bring it in.

it's seriously messed up.

when i first read it, i thought it mus be fictionalized.

but when you study (either from a book or just observation) the mob mentality etc ... people are strange.

the german movie "das experiment" was interesting, kinda neat but i would be more interested in the actual study.

i would actually like to take part in the experiment, though it would probably take a long time to "recover" from it.

[mousch]

The video wold be totally interesting tow atch.
What people do when they think another person is expecting something from them is amazing. and really, really scary.

[imported_shiola]

Bonjour Starladear.

You are sentenced to 8 weeks in solitary for reasons that are confidential at this time.

The rest of you are on bread and water rations.

That is all, you're dismissed.

[mousch]

Yay! Bread and water! Moving up from eggshells and coffee grounds!