Derren Brown's Recreation of the Milgram Experiment

[g00dm00sic]

god i wanna punch the douchebag who asked for more notches...

[SerenityMellissa]

I can't believe only one person. We have got to learn from our collective human past. This makes me sad.

[SpoonsForks]

how is this legal to redo this experiment? i thought this caused a great deal of harm to the "teachers"

[keenermarc]

@SpoonsForks

I don't know if anyone was harmed, as in traumatized. They weren't harmed to the degree that participants (prisoners mostly) were harmed during The Stanford Prison Experiment. They likely did the same type of screening to weed out people who were emotionally or mentally weak. It's interesting that only one participant in this version was aware of the previous 1960s experiment!

[SpoonsForks]

@keenermarc ahh this whole video is really interesting. i've always wanted them to redo famous experiments but i know they're pretty harmful to people, so it would be impossible to do. (like the zimbardo prison experiment) thanks for the upload!

[silversquall]

@SpoonsForks

Also, it's not like there's anything in the law to not allow the "experiment" to be replicated. It's simply the case that many (if not all) review boards will not allow a university to conduct such an experiment. I have to say most though cause...well, I'm pretty sure I've come across an empirical article that did a similar thing, so that one definitely got through.

[g00dm00sic]

@SpoonsForks the original experiment was done in yale university in america. the american psychology association later on banned experiments causing this much stress on human subjects but they have no say in experiments conducted in the UK.