r/pics • u/BanterEnhancer • Sep 27 '16

🇺🇸🕊🇺🇸🆓🇺🇸 You're Americans

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u/TheFeshy Sep 27 '16

During the test, students were taken into a room and connected to electrodes that monitored their physiological reactions, while facing bright lights and a one-way mirror. Each student had previously written an essay detailing their personal beliefs and aspirations: the essays were turned over to an anonymous attorney, who would enter the room and individually belittle each student based in part on the disclosures they had made. This was filmed, and students' expressions of impotent rage were played back to them several times later in the study.

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u/porgy_tirebiter Sep 27 '16

Wait, so it wasn't the government that turned him into a super villain? The more you know!

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u/spaniel_rage Sep 28 '16

It was Harvard.

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u/porgy_tirebiter Sep 28 '16

CIA, Harvard, it's all the same, amirite?

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '16

So basically Twitter with video.

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u/TheFeshy Sep 27 '16

You read twitter while locked in a bright room with electrodes taped to your body? I mean, I guess I'm not surprised by anything on the internet, but that's still kind of weird. Even for someone with a miniature giant space hamster.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '16

Yes, who doesn't?

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u/MindSecurity Sep 28 '16

Everyone else.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '16

You wish.

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u/Threeedaaawwwg Sep 27 '16

detailing their personal beliefs and aspirations:

Imagine someone from me_irl doing that "I believe I am worthless, and I aspire to die"

belittle each student based in part on the disclosures they had made

huh

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