Why Are We Morbidly Curious?
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Hey Vsauce. Michael here. In 1924psychologist Carney Landis drew lines on people's facesand then photographed them in various scenariosto study facial expressions.But he didn't use actorsand he didn't tell the participants to pretend to feel emotions. Instead,he subjected them to actual trauma.He had them do things likesmell ammonia, look at pornographic images and even reach their hand inbuckets of wet slimy frogs.His most intense directiveinvolved ordering them to take a knife and while being photographedcut off the head of a living rat.Seriously.Most initially refused to cut the head off, but eventuallytwo-thirds agreed to do as they were told,including a 13-year-old boy referred to the psychology department by a doctorfor high blood pre...
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Hey Vsauce. Michael here. In 1924psychologist Carney Landis drew lines on people's facesand then photographed them in various scenariosto study facial expressions.But he didn't use actorsand he didn't tell the participants to pretend to feel emotions. Instead,he subjected them to actual trauma.He had them do things likesmell ammonia, look at pornographic images and even reach their hand inbuckets of wet slimy frogs.His most intense directiveinvolved ordering them to take a knife and while being photographedcut off the head of a living rat.Seriously.Most initially refused to cut the head off, but eventuallytwo-thirds agreed to do as they were told,including a 13-year-old boy referred to the psychology department by a doctorfor high blood pre...
