'Game of Death': Are you surprised by this reality TV show experiment?
- March 17, 2010 1:57 PM |
- By POV
A French TV documentary to be aired Wednesday shows people involved in what they thought was a television game show in which they were asked to administer electric shocks to rival contestants.
The fake game show, called Le jeu de la mort (The Game of Death), features a glamorous hostess and a studio audience that eggs contestants on with cries of "punishment."
The documentary found that 82 per cent of participants were willing to pull the levers that inflicted a shock on their opponents -actors who writhed realistically in pain.
The experiment was modelled on a famous study conducted at Yale University in the 1960s which used similar methods to examine how obedient citizens could be driven to take part in mass murder.
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