Below is what I wrote--*not* disagreeing just asking. Hope that's acceptable.
Joan Warmbold wrote: > Interesting suppositions Stephen--any data to back them up? > > Joan > [email protected] > > >> Chris Green, who no longer appears to be with us (was it something we >> said?), has flagged (elsewhere) an interesting study, here: >> >> http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/shocking-experiment-money/ >> >> The point seems to be that you don't need a Milgram-type Nazi to get >> you to give shocks to someone else, only a little money. >> >> Hmm. I beg to disagree. I think the experimenters fail to give their >> subjects enough credit. They may even be smarter than the >> experimenters. >> >> I think they may have figured out that the study is a set-up, and no >> one is really going to get shocked. After all, who hasn't heard >> about Milgram these days or about devious experimenters. So they >> happily go along with the role-play and pretend to shock the >> "victim". The experimenters hand over the cash and no one gets hurt. >> >> Pretty good deal: the subjects get paid, and the experimenters get a >> paper. No one feels guilty. I bet the subjects even have the decency >> to pretend not to know it's all a fake when asked about it. >> >> (This also explains why seeing the face as well as the hand reaction >> reduces the amount earned. With the face, they may be a little less >> confident in their conclusion it's all a fake--but not by much.) >> >> Stephen >> -------------------------------------------- >> Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. >> Professor of Psychology, Emeritus >> Bishop's University >> Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada >> e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca >> --------------------------------------------- >> >> --- >> You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe click here: >> http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=49240.d374d0c18780e492c3d2e63f91752d0d&n=T&l=tips&o=9875 >> or send a blank email to >> leave-9875-49240.d374d0c18780e492c3d2e63f91752...@fsulist.frostburg.edu >> >> >> > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=49240.d374d0c18780e492c3d2e63f91752d0d&n=T&l=tips&o=9895 > or send a blank email to > leave-9895-49240.d374d0c18780e492c3d2e63f91752...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=9913 or send a blank email to leave-9913-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
