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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.

Individuals in mass formation lose critical thinking abilities. Surprisingly, higher IQ and education levels make people more susceptible. People tend to blindly trust authority figures like the CDC, while those outside the system question and seek evidence.

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.

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.

People are controlled by fear and demoralization. Some believe that keeping the population uneducated, unhealthy, and lacking confidence makes them easier to govern. The top 1% own 80% of the world's wealth, which is unjust. Many people tolerate this inequality because they feel poor, demoralized, and scared, leading them to follow orders and hope for the best.

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.

The agentic state is a psychological condition where individuals see themselves as agents executing the wishes of an authority figure, as explored in Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments. These experiments showed that the agentic state leads to a loss of individual responsibility, where people believe they are simply following orders. A white paper from the Global Government Technology Center in Berlin outlines how Agentic AI will revamp public administration, especially in crisis management. It claims traditional crisis management models are under strain due to interconnected shocks and that AI can automate and scale attacks at unprecedented speed. One proposal is a simulation infrastructure where every individual is given a virtual twin, and their actions are analyzed and simulated to predict future behavior. AI would initiate crisis response before human intervention, working with autonomous systems like drones and robots. Oracle AI co-founder Larry Ellison suggests AI-powered surveillance will ensure optimal behavior, with drones replacing police chases.

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.

People are influenced by those around them through encouragement and positive feedback. Someone who was once stuffed into a locker might be seen as amazing after transitioning. People profit off of this vulnerability to influence. This vulnerability is why cults exist and why people become religious martyrs. It's difficult to convince a 55-year-old with a job and family to wear a suicide vest. They might question the promise of 72 virgins in heaven and the sanity of the situation.

People are controlled by fear and demoralization. Some believe that an educated, healthy, and confident population is harder to govern, so they discourage these qualities. The top 1% owning 80% of the world's wealth is concerning, as it leaves many feeling poor, demoralized, and scared. This leads them to follow orders and hope for the best.

When people have power over others, like governments or cult leaders, they tend to believe they are superior. Cult leaders enjoy controlling behavior and thoughts, feeling superior for running things. This sense of superiority is a common human trait throughout history.

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.

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.

Society conditions people to be blind followers, making them ideal slaves who depend on leaders like politicians and priests. Blind obedience prevents rebellion, allowing for easy manipulation by those in power. Stupid individuals are drawn to roles like politicians and priests.