Sentences with phrase «painful electric shocks»

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

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.

That was, of course, to avoid painful electric shocks from the packs affixed to their buttocks and activated if they failed to show said affection.

Oh, and whenever one of them died to the cluster of floating, existentially adrift Emil heads that comprise that boss fight, all three had to play a round of that notoriously painful electric shock game Lightning Reaction.

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.

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.

One memorable example is the much covered study that revealed large percentages of people (a quarter of women and two thirds of men) prefer giving themselves a painful electric shock to just sitting with their own thoughts for 15 minutes.

All the rats learned that a flash of light led to a painful electric shock.

This is expensive and very unpleasant as it gives a painful electric shock if the patient develops VT..

According to a paper published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, participants in a study were willing to give up money in order to prevent a hidden stranger from being administered a painful electric shock.

Physical punishment (in this case in the form of a painful electric shock) is not a viable training tool for any dog, and certainly not for a Frenchie.