Selective attention test:
Elevators and conformity - funny:
The Asch Experiment - conformity and social psychology:
Highly controversial Milgram Experiment:
Famous Stanford Prison Experiment:
My brother and I had a lengthy discussion about all sorts of experiments that we'd heard about then we looked a few up on YouTube. I see these as reminders of the importance of strong ethical values and the need to uphold these values. It is sobering to think of how working within strictly defined boundaries can have such a powerful effect on all of us.
On a separate note, here's a short poem I wrote for a friend of mine:
Like a greedy angel, I fall from the heavens,
down, down to the ground.
I am never afraid,
I never even make a sound.
But if you try to save me,
if even for a moment you hold,
I will fall apart and lose my lonely beauty,
because my heart is cold.
So, as promised last week, this is also a riddle: What am I?
