Sentences with phrase «deliver painful shocks»

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The goal, Rogers says, is to detect early signs of arrhythmia and deliver coordinated voltages across the entire organ, rather than delivering massive, painful shocks at a few points, as current defibrillators do.

The infamous Milgram experiment, in which subjects believed they were delivering increasingly painful high - voltage shocks to other participants for giving incorrect answers, demonstrated people's willingness to obey an authority figure even when asked to do something reprehensible.

They asked subjects to make a series of decisions about how many moderately painful electric shocks to deliver to themselves or to others.

Bark collars punish your dog for barking by emitting an irritating, high - pitched sound, a spray of citronella, or delivering a painful static shock via metal prongs on your dog's neck.

Shock collars, which deliver a painful jolt to your pet, can cause pets harm and may make dogs aggressive, especially if they associate the person or animal they are barking at with the pain.

Just last week, the majority of members of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel recommended the banning of Graduated Electronic Decelerators, or GEDs, devices that deliver painful electric shocks to disabled students at the Rotenberg Center.