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People often submit to authority figures, even when it involves harming others. In an experiment, participants were told to administer electric shocks to someone in another room, simply because they were ordered to do so. Shockingly, 50-65% of participants continued to administer the shocks, even when the person in the other room appeared to be dead or unconscious. This experiment has been repeated with similar results, showing that people are willing to harm others if they believe they are following orders from an authority figure. The authority is often based on appearance, such as wearing a white jacket or having a position of power. Governments and militaries use similar tactics to maintain control. Ultimately, these illusions of authority allow people to avoid taking responsibility for their actions.

Stanley Milgram, a Yale professor, conducted an experiment where subjects were told to administer electric shocks to a person in another room via a dial. The subjects could hear the person's reactions, including struggling, screaming, and pleading. A doctor in a lab coat, an authority figure, instructed them to continue, even when the subjects expressed reluctance. Milgram found that 67% of participants turned the dial up to potentially lethal levels. Milgram concluded that the voice of an authority figure can overwhelm a person's deeply held beliefs. Referencing Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil," it's suggested people may act wrongly if they believe they won't be held responsible. However, 33% of the subjects refused to continue. The speaker compares this experiment to the COVID-19 pandemic, where doctors instructed the public to do things that were known to be wrong, like censoring the press and blindly trusting experts. The speaker asserts that trusting experts is a feature of totalitarianism and religion, not science or democracy.

This video explores the CIA's involvement in mind control experiments during the Cold War. The agency funded research on drugs like LSD and conducted experiments on unwitting individuals, including prostitutes and drug addicts. They also funded experiments at McGill University in Montreal, where severe brainwashing techniques were used. The CIA developed a personality assessment system to predict human behavior and explored methods of remote control. While the video suggests that mind control was not fully achieved, it raises ethical concerns about the CIA's actions and the impact on individuals involved.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA conducted a secret program called MK Ultra to study mind control. They recruited German scientists through Operation Paperclip to work on America's behalf, focusing on developing biological and chemical weapons. MK Ultra involved experiments on thousands of US subjects, including sex workers, prisoners, and terminally ill patients, using drugs like LSD. The program ended in 1973, and although most records were destroyed, some information remained. MK Ultra was revealed to the public in the 1970s, and investigations showed unethical practices, including the death of scientist Frank Olson. The experiments inspired pop culture and influenced artists and authors. MK Ultra remains a secret government experiment with far-reaching effects.

In a study conducted by the speaker and their graduate students, college students volunteered to participate in a study on prison life. After personality tests and interviews, 24 participants were randomly assigned to be either prisoners or guards. The experiment began with a realistic arrest, where a police car arrived at the participants' homes and took them away in front of real neighbors. The prisoners were then taken to a makeshift cell in the basement of a police station. The speaker, who was the first prisoner picked up, described the experience as degrading.

The CIA and Defense Department have been using people as guinea pigs for mind control experiments. They used drugs, pain, and electric shock to make agents forget classified information. They also tested chemicals to see if they could make people commit crimes. The overall project, MK Ultra, had 149 subprojects, including open air testing, experimentation on prisoners, soldiers, and college students. Most people were not aware they were being experimented on, except for voluntary army soldiers who were told they would be testing new weapons. However, they were actually given drugs and chemicals without knowing what they were. One chemical called BZ, 100 times stronger than LSD, caused people to lose their minds for up to 2 or 3 weeks. The army initially denied the testing but later admitted to it.

The ASH experiment is one of psychology's oldest and most popular pieces of research. A volunteer is told that he's taking part in a visual perception test. What he doesn't know is that the other participants are actors, and he's the only person taking part in the real test, which is actually about group conformity. Please begin. The experiment you will be taking part in today involves the perception of line length. Your task will be simply to look at the line here on the left and indicate which of the three lines on the right is equal to it in length. The actors have been told to match the wrong lines. In the first test, the correct answer is two. Group dynamics is one of the most powerful forces in human psychology.

In different cultures, people have various ways of expressing themselves, whether through war, painting, or wearing masks. Psych anthropologist John Watson studied 23 cultures and found that when people change their appearance, 90% of them engage in harmful actions like killing and torture. This demonstrates the power of anonymity. There are seven social processes that contribute to evil behavior: mindlessly taking the first small step, dehumanizing others, losing one's individuality, diffusing personal responsibility, blindly obeying authority, conforming to group norms, and passively tolerating evil through inaction or indifference. Understanding evil is not the same as excusing it, and psychology aims to comprehend rather than justify such actions.

I'm a brainwashing expert, and I am personally terrified of short form social media like that. And I'm not immune. And I'm one of the best in the world, and I am not immune to it. And I think that should be a stark warning for a lot of people. What's the cost, though? What's the cost of the life, in your view, of living this kind of life where we go home and we just burn our brains out with these social media apps and fry our dopamine receptors? Is there a cost? Yeah. I think the cost is increased loneliness. And that these apps any app that sells ads has two main goals. Number one, and all advertising shares these two main goals. Number one, make you compare yourself to other people in unhealthy ways. Number two, make you think I am not enough, and we see that everywhere. I'm not enough, and I'm comparing myself to other people, and it gets us into an us versus them. Then it traps you into a corner of confirmation bias. Whatever you think, I'm gonna show you this group of a 150 people that agree with you. No matter how stupid, how radical, how absolutely bizarre your ideas are. Let me show you all of these people. And then you start thinking the whole world's like that. So really quickly, what happens when we conglomerate people together? Like, I've only been in New York once in my life, but we're in New York right now. I'm looking at my hotel. I was like struggling to find a piece of nature. Like, I think I have more trees on my property than they're in the whole city here. So on the whole, when you squeeze people together, have you heard of the bystander effect? So there there's a very good experiment that was led by doctor Phillips and Barto that they did at Liverpool Street Station. Oh, in London? In London. Yeah. Okay. So right at Liverpool Street, there's three or four steps to get up to the main. So from the street, there's a curb, and then there's three or four steps. They had this woman laid out on the ground wearing like a normal skirt and top, and I think 395 people either walked by her or stepped over her. And then they did it with a guy. And then they did it with a guy who's holding a beer, and he's asking for help. And they they it may have changed all these variables. But it's happened in New York City before. There's a woman named Kitty Genovace in the sixties, I think just two blocks from here, who was stabbed to death in front of, like, 55 witnesses. Don't quote me on that number. And no one called the police until much, much later, mostly because everyone thought somebody else would act. But if I described to you saying, watched a person get stabbed, and three people just watched, and they watched it happen. Would you say that that's psychopathy? That's a psychopath. So these large cities and stuff and the apps that are messing with the social part of our brain that makes us think the tribe is way bigger than our brains are made to handle causes this almost psychopathic behavior, which the bystander effect has been proven hundreds of times as an experiment.

After hearing a phrase repeated four times, participants were asked to write down what they heard. Surprisingly, almost everyone wrote down "that is embarrassing." This phenomenon demonstrates how our eyes and ears work together to interpret electrical signals based on our expectations. In other words, we don't perceive reality as it is, but rather our own version of reality.

The ASH experiment is a classic psychology study on group conformity. A volunteer participates in a supposed visual perception test, unaware that the other participants are actors instructed to provide incorrect answers. The volunteer's task is to identify which line matches the length of a reference line. In the first test, the correct answer is 2, but the actors choose different numbers. The experiment demonstrates that individuals often conform to group opinions, even when they know the answers are wrong. This tendency to align with the group highlights the powerful influence of social dynamics on human behavior, as people seek acceptance and avoid conflict.

The CIA and the Defense Department have been using people as guinea pigs for mind control and other things. The CIA experimented on its own men using drugs, pain, hypnosis, and electric shock to erase classified information from agents who were quitting. They also experimented with chemicals to induce people to commit crimes. A project called MK Ultra, previously named Artichoke, included 149 sub-projects. These sub-projects ranged from the aforementioned experiments to open-air testing in the United States, and experimentation on prisoners, soldiers, and college students. These people did not know they were being experimented on, nor did they give their approval.

People often submit to authority figures, even when it means harming others. In an experiment, participants were ordered to administer electric shocks to someone they couldn't see. Shockingly, 50-65% of participants continued to administer the shocks, even when the person in the other room appeared to be dead or unconscious. This experiment has been repeated with similar results, showing that more than half of the population would follow orders to harm someone. The authority figure's appearance, confidence, and affiliation with an institution played a significant role in influencing obedience. Governments and militaries use similar tactics to maintain authority. These illusions of authority allow people to avoid taking responsibility for their actions by claiming they were just following orders.

Benjamin Libet's experiments in the 1980s raised doubts about the connection between conscious decisions and physical movements. He wired subjects to an EEG machine and asked them to choose when to perform a hand movement. Surprisingly, brain activity initiating the movement was detected before the conscious decision was reported. This suggests that the conscious decision may not cause the movement, but rather reports on what has already been initiated in the brain. While some argue that this disproves free will, Libet proposed the concept of "free won't," suggesting that conscious veto of an action may still be possible even after it has been initiated in the brain.

A psychiatrist named Dr. Ewen Cameron was approached by the CIA in 1957 to help them create assassins with amnesia and programmed behavior. Cameron used intense electroshock therapy and a technique called psychic driving to erase past behavior and implant new behavior. Patients were subjected to repeated electroshocks and forced to listen to repetitive messages for weeks. They were then put to sleep for several weeks with drugs to erase their memories. This unethical brainwashing experiment violated the principle of doing no harm. The CIA funded Cameron's work for four years in the hopes of creating a Manchurian candidate.

In the 1960s, a psychologist conducted an experiment with monkeys to show how society influences behavior. Monkeys were punished with water if they tried to get bananas. New monkeys were introduced, and even though they had never been splashed, they learned not to climb for bananas due to peer pressure. This illustrates how society can influence individuals without them understanding why. The experiment suggests that people may act based on societal norms rather than critical thinking.

Psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment to understand how people obey authority. Volunteers were told they were participating in memory research and were asked to administer electric shocks to a learner for incorrect answers. The shocks increased in voltage with each mistake. Despite the learner being an actor and the shocks being harmless, two-thirds of participants were willing to administer potentially fatal shocks when instructed by a man in a white coat. Milgram's findings shocked America, revealing that ordinary citizens were capable of committing acts against their conscience, similar to the Germans under the Nazis.

Guards in Abu Ghraib used their power and anonymity to subject prisoners to degrading and humiliating tasks. They forced prisoners to clean toilets with their bare hands and engaged in sexual abuse, including simulating sodomy. Similar to the soldiers in Abu Ghraib, the guards in this study replicated these actions within just five days. The extreme stress caused the healthy individuals chosen for the study to experience emotional breakdowns within 36 hours. Due to the uncontrollable nature of the situation, the study was terminated after six days, during which five participants had emotional breakdowns.

The CIA and Defense Department conducted mind control experiments on individuals without their consent, using drugs, hypnosis, and electric shock. Project MK Ultra involved 149 subprojects, including testing on prisoners, soldiers, and college students. Volunteer soldiers were misled about the nature of the experiments, leading to long-lasting effects from drugs like BZ, which is stronger than LSD and causes severe disorientation. Army initially denied any lasting effects from BZ testing. Translation: The CIA and Defense Department conducted secret experiments on people without their permission, using drugs and other methods. Project MK Ultra had 149 subprojects, including testing on prisoners, soldiers, and college students. Volunteer soldiers were deceived about the experiments, leading to long-term effects from drugs like BZ, which is more potent than LSD and causes severe confusion. Initially, the Army denied any lasting effects from BZ testing.

Informed consent was often withheld in government-sponsored experiments conducted at hospitals, universities, and military bases in the US. Thousands of experiments aimed to understand the effects of radiation exposure on the human body, but they failed to uphold our national values and humanity. For instance, scientists injected plutonium into 18 patients without their knowledge, and doctors exposed indigent cancer patients to excessive radiation doses, offering no potential benefits. These experiments targeted the most vulnerable citizens, including the destitute and gravely ill, as well as members of the military.

People submit to authority because of psychological forces that compel obedience. In an experiment, 50-65% of participants continued to administer electric shocks to someone, even after they appeared to be dead or unconscious, simply because they were ordered to do so. This shows that more than half of the population would follow an immoral order from a stranger in charge. The authority is based on appearances, such as wearing a white jacket or having a uniform with insignias. These illusions trick people into giving up their power and avoiding responsibility for their actions.

In a 1960s experiment by Darley and Latane, students filled out questionnaires in a waiting room as smoke filled the room. When alone, 75% reported the smoke. When with a confederate instructed to ignore the smoke, only 10% reacted. In groups of three naive participants, only 38% reported the smoke. Some students coughed, rubbed their eyes, and waved away fumes but did not report the smoke. The study suggests that in emergencies, individual responsibility decreases in group situations, possibly due to fear of being perceived as overreacting. People are more likely to react when in groups of familiar people.