Sentences with phrase «administering electric shocks»

Milgram's obedience experiments — which involved a subject administering electric shocks to a second volunteer — changed the landscape of social psychology, though Milgram's career would suffer due to many of his colleagues disagreeing with the ethicality of the experiment.

Paramedics, having just arrived in an ambulance, administered electric shock stimulation and then took Gathers to Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital in Marina del Rey, five miles away.

The following day, researchers placed them back in the box and administered an electric shock.

Researchers administered electric shocks with electrodes attached to the wrists of 160 subjects, starting at an almost imperceptible level and amping up until the subject described the pain as intolerable.

The study depicted in Experimenter (Grade: B --RRB- is just as controversial but less theatrical: A decade before Stanford started and aborted its own little autopsy of human behavior, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard, eventually rocking some unflattering facial hair) tested people's willingness to obey authority by instructing volunteers to administer electric shocks to strangers in another room.

If the learner failed to remember what the teacher had read, the teacher was instructed to administer an electric shock.

A recent study published in Science found that many participants «preferred to administer electric shocks to themselves instead of being left alone with their thoughts,» which I have to say I completely get.

** Seriously, participants in 11 studies typically did not enjoy spending 6 to 15 minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do but think, that many preferred to administer electric shocks to themselves instead of being left alone with their thoughts.

Not exact matches

While subjects were in the scanner, the researchers administered a series of electric shocks to their wrists, each time warning them (by showing them either a blue or a red cue on a screen) whether the next shock would be mild or intense.

Milgram, who was already famous for the obedience experiment in which study subjects administered painful electric shocks to other study subjects when urged to do so by an authority figure, came up with the letter method as a tool to try to solve the problem in real life.

Then they administered small electric shocks.

Milgram is a real - life figure, a late, influential social psychologist whose most notable (notorious) work was a Yale experiment in which subjects would administer increasingly violent electric shocks.

Gaffigan plays Milgram's confederate in the experiments, an actor who pretends to receive increasingly dangerous electric shocks administered by research subjects — played by recognizable faces like Anthony Edwards and John Leguizamo — who've been tricked into thinking they're participating in a study of short - term memory.

He put a «teacher» in one room in front of a console that supposedly administered painful electric shocks, and a «learner» in the other, bound to a chair and hooked up to wires.

Every time the learner answered a question wrong, the teacher had to administer what he or she thought was an electric shock.