Elliott decided that since she had blue eyes and was the teacher, blue-eyed students were superior.
Manic Monday
Not quite Alibaba: Robber’s Cave Experiment
Then came the Competition stage. Over the course of 4-6 days, friction between the two groups was to occur. Basically, there was a turf war.
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
In the 1950’s, psychologist Milton Rokeach conducted an experiment where he brought together three psychiatric patients who all claimed to be Jesus.
Manic Monday: The Monster Experiment
Dr. Johnson he thought that labelling of children as stutterers could make them worse, and in some cases cause children to start stuttering. To prove his point, he thought up an experiment that today is called the ‘Monster Study’
Manic Monday: BoBo dolls and little kids
"Pow, right in the nose, boom, boom." "Suckeroo..stay down".
Manic Monday: Loftus lost in the Mall
We've heard about how false memories can be "planted" in someone's mind. For example, people can be convinced they committed a crime they never did commit--in just a few hours! Others have been convinced they were raped, or molested as children. In 1999, Dr. Elizabeth F. Loftus conducted a study that greatly impacted our understanding of … Continue reading Manic Monday: Loftus lost in the Mall
Manic Monday: Electroshock and LSD: Child Experiments
In the 1950s, Tulane University doctors performed a craniotomy on a 17-year-old girl who was considered “retarded.” In childhood, she had this label put on her, and in adolescence, she was further diagnoses as schizophrenic. The craniotomy, therefore, was a treatment for her schizophrenia. An incision was made through her cortex via the lateral ventricle, … Continue reading Manic Monday: Electroshock and LSD: Child Experiments
Manic Monday: Harlow’s Pit of Despair, the Rape Rack and Iron Maidens
Manic Monday: Harlow's Pit of Despair, the Rape Rack and Iron Maidens.
Manic Monday: Harlow’s Pit of Despair, the Rape Rack and Iron Maidens
Manic Monday: Harlow's Pit of Despair, the Rape Rack and Iron Maidens.
Manic Monday: Harlow’s Pit of Despair, the Rape Rack and Iron Maidens
“One of six monkeys isolated for three months refused to eat after release and died five days later…the effects of six months of total social isolation were so devastating and debilitating that we had assumed initially that twelve months of isolation would not produce any additional decrement. This assumption proved to be false; twelve months of isolation almost obliterated the animals socially.”
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