6 psychological experiments with a surprise ending

Is there any framework that comes out a normal person, or we're all a little peculiar madness?

The website remembered several well-known experiments, which turned on its head all that we knew about the human mind. And no surprises no cost.









The subjects were in the same room. Suddenly a front man portrayed an epileptic seizure. It turned out that the more people present in the room, the less any of them tried to help the victim.

Conclusion: a bystander will help faster than the crowd, where people will just compassionately observe what is happening.









95 experts in the field of psychology were divided into 2 groups and gave listen to the recording of the actor. The first group had difficulty with the conclusion. Second, after hearing that the actor is crazy, diagnosed him with schizophrenia. The actor was mentally healthy, but portrayed it was crazy.

Conclusion: Zelda Fitzgerald suffered from schizophrenia, but even outwardly differed nothing from creative, but mentally healthy women of the time.









Some students were asked to write an essay where they justify the police to suppress the student revolt. The job was supposed to be a reward: from $ 0.5 to $ 10. Each subject filled out a questionnaire describing their attitudes to the police. Students explain the actions of the police and received $ 0.5, and in the questionnaire expressed more sympathy for the police than those who received $ 10.

Conclusion: the higher amount was perceived by the students as a bribe for their opinion, less high — as a reward for their analysis.









The subject is shown photographs of the accident and then asked questions on the picture, deliberately podtasovyvaya minor facts to confuse and create a different picture of what happened. In the end, the brain of the subject invented a new, false memories.

Conclusion: the experiment has called into question the testimony of witnesses who, as it turned out, often do not describe what was actually.









The woman sat motionless in the center of the room. Beside her lay on the table 72 of the subject, among whom were rose, pen, scissors, gun. 6 hours the audience chose any of them and it could do with a woman anything. Fairly quickly people began to show aggression, to strip, to cut the hair, hit with a whip. One of the spectators tried to kill her, the other stopped him.

Conclusion: the experiment showed how little it takes to turn into a beast just to exclude from the life all the rules.









7 pseudopatients turned in a psychiatric hospital. Each was taken for a madman and forced to undergo treatment. Then one of pseudopatients, the famous psychologist, published an article in which he described how he and the others feigned madness, than put into question the reliability of psychiatric diagnosis.

The next 3 months, the psychologist promised to send one new hospital pseudosolenia. During this time the doctors found out that 41 "the pretender", although a psychologist never sent.

Conclusion: the doctors wanted to see people as patients and found them, wanted to find malingerers and also they were found, making mistakes in both cases.



via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment