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1. Kristian
   June 26th, 2007 at 8:14 am

   I wish I could remember the show that it was on, but there was a modern version of your experiment #1 - with fairly similar results!

2. ross
   June 26th, 2007 at 8:32 am

   There is a really good movie about the prisoner/guard experiment.

   Das Experiment (German with English subtitles)

3. Rizwan
   June 26th, 2007 at 9:39 am

   Yeah I saw it too, the modern version was on 20/20 I think. They wanted to test how far the subjects would allow the person to suffer.

4. Gordonii
   June 26th, 2007 at 12:16 pm

   This is soo true. Thanks for this post, pretty interesting stuff.

5. Jonathan Solichin
   June 26th, 2007 at 12:27 pm

   yea, I saw the prisoner/guard & the milgram on tv. If i remembered right, they re did the milgram experiment and it turned out to be almost identical. but I’ve never heard of the Little Albert one. So thanks for this post. Humans are complicated creature XDD

6. Tim
   June 26th, 2007 at 12:35 pm

   There’s a great writeup of the Stanford Prison Experiment here: http://www.prisonexp.org/
   It’s one of those things everybody should read once.

   Tim

7. Dragonize
   June 26th, 2007 at 12:40 pm

   Amazing how society forgets that these experiments apply very well to the bad things being done in Iraq and other places. Soldiers are taught to obey orders by big guys barking at them for several straight weeks. The people in these experiments were given, what, a few minutes of instructions and basically agreed to murder people for not learning words correctly?

8. Patricia Abregu
   June 26th, 2007 at 12:47 pm

   All studies proven by the Nazi’s and followers.

9. LD
   June 26th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

   Derren Brown the psychological illusionist did a reconstruction of it for one of his UK TV shows. Very similar results were shown to the original, apart from those who knew of the original experiment already.

10. Jeremy
    June 26th, 2007 at 1:03 pm

    Hi, great article except you missed one of the best!

    Check out a book called “When Prophecy Fails” about a group of Sociologists and students that infiltrated an American Flying Saucer cult at the height of their popularity in the 1950’s.

    100% percent illegal by today’s standards, starting with putting Grad students in harms way by getting several of them to go underground inside a possibly dangerous cult. The surveillance probably violated everyone’s rights as well.

    The result was an interesting and contra-indicated result that could not have been discovered any other way and a fascinating insight into the growth of cults that has never been matched.

11. Kelly
    June 26th, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    “Veronica Mars” had an episode where they performed the first experiment for a college class she was taking. Same results too.

12. Urik
    June 26th, 2007 at 4:40 pm

    There is a great German movie about the experiment #2.
    It’s called “The Experiment”. Highly recommend it.

13. Adrien Ginesty
    June 27th, 2007 at 10:24 am

    There is a good article about the “Monster study” on stuttering on PsyBlog:
    http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/06/monster-study.php

    I think this one could be added to your list.

14. Seth
    July 2nd, 2007 at 7:41 pm

    I think it only fair that I say that Watson planned to extinguish the conditioning on Little Albert, but the reason he couldn’t is because Little Albert got adopted soon after the first conditioning experiment, and back then, records weren’t kept as well, especially with adoption procedures.

15. stacy
    July 24th, 2007 at 3:00 am

    With Watson and Little Albert, I’m pretty sure it was a white rabbit that Watson used to condition Little Albert’s fear, only because it was more of a symbol of how something, that most of us don’t fear, can be taught to fear.

16. Mark
    July 24th, 2007 at 4:27 am

    Nice round-up of the studies. The video of Derren Brown replicating the Milgram study is available here: http://www.psychblog.co.uk/2007/07/17/video-obedience-with-derren-brow n/

17. kelly
    August 8th, 2007 at 9:12 pm

    haha. poor kid.

18. Jacy
    August 16th, 2007 at 10:43 pm

    I found the Little Albert experiment very interesting. It makes me wonder if someone condtioned me to fear a certain object when i was a kid.
    I have to say that i have never seen a movie about those experiments.

19. Jennifer
    August 17th, 2007 at 8:45 am

    These articles are very interesting. Its amazing what the mind can tollerate and be conditioned to in the severe circumstances. At least the subjects only indured these for awhile but, just think of people in hostage sittuations or war victims–they are subject to these things daily for several days if not years!

20. Jacy
    August 17th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

    It is hard for me to think about what it would be like for war victims. Especially since we are at war right now and so many people have loved ones and friends over seas!

21. Jacy
    August 17th, 2007 at 6:03 pm

    It is really hard to think that war victims are faced with situations like that. Especially since we are at war right now and so many people have friends and loved ones over seas.

22. Jacy
    August 21st, 2007 at 7:37 pm

    The Experiment about the prison really shows how people conform to behaviors that are not like them at all. It is amazing what we will do to fit in or to feel comfortable.

23. sonja
    August 23rd, 2007 at 11:29 am

    The stanford prison experiment was a little extrem and over the top. One the people were just thrown in prison , none of them actually did any thing to deserve the punishment. what if they killed themselves or went bonkers on someone?

24. sonja
    August 23rd, 2007 at 11:34 am

    John watson should have found a older child to do his experiment on. the little boy was to young and was startled repeatedly. it may be very possible that the little boy will never recover from that experiment and will be afraid of the color white, any type of animal that look like a rat or affraid of loud sounds for the rest of his life

25. Jacy
    August 27th, 2007 at 6:29 pm

    I agree the boy was a little young but that is when you learn things while your developing.

26. Jacy
    August 27th, 2007 at 6:33 pm

    The experiment about the prison was a little extreme that s probaly why this is the only experiment we have heard of like this

27. jbermejo
    February 8th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    Does anyone know about any recent studies having to do with racism, immigration, anything like that?

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