What are the most bizarre psychological experiments to ever be conducted? 

I've heard about the dog study. If it makes you feel any better, after the experiments, the dogs were all adopted out to good families who knew how to rehabilitate dogs. I do believe they lived long lives, had many snuggles, and were very very good bois and gurs.

The conformity experiment reminds me of something my friends and I did back in college. If we were out somewhere and one of us spotted a very casual acquaintance we knew from a class the previous year or something, rather than approaching them we'd tell another friend we were with all about how we knew the person. After that the friend would approach the person and say something like, "Oh hey Jim. I haven't seen you since Professor Smith's physics class last year, how have you been?" 90% of the time the person would act as though they remembered my friend even though they'd never met before.

Mr. Sparked, you just made this doggo's heart melt with your response to Story 5 (the learned helplessness experiment). The world needs more compassionate voices and souls like yours ❤

7:06 anyone curious about the PTSD/memory one- it’s a type of therapy called EMDR, and is actually a scientifically studied & increasingly well-understood form of therapy! I have friends who have used this treatment and seen incredible results. It’s a bit more complicated than what I can explain, but essentially, it’s not so much about changing the memory exactly, as it is changing the emotion attached to the memory. For example, participants might learn various coping methods, and then be asked to recall the trauma (generally while also being stimulated by some form of physical cue, such as following a light with their eyes, or feeling a buzzer in their hands), while also utilizing their new-found coping methods, or while projecting compassion, comfort, etc to the “past self” in their memory. Overall, the idea is to try to remove the feeling of helplessness and fear of imminent death/destruction from the memory, thereby making it possible for the participant to recall the event or experience triggers without automatically triggering those same emotions. It’s pretty incredible ❤

Hey, I was one of those babies! My Mom was a nurse at the time and heard about these experiments, so she had me participate. Of course I don't remember any of it, lol...

Mice were placed in a jar with water in it. The mice could swim for 15 minutes before they gave up and sank, but then they were pulled out of the jar. Then they were placed into another jar, and they had hope they would be pulled out again, so they ended up swimming for over an hour in hopes of being pulled out again until they gave up once more.

Great video. 👍 If I enter an elevator with a bunch of people doing weird things like all of them facing the wall, I'm out. I've watched too many horror movies, I don't play with creeps. 😅

I just know this ones gonna be a banger im obsessed with this kind of stuff

I have PTSD and have done EMDR so I can elaborate on that! I'd say it's not so much changing your memories themselves as it is changing the way your brain is wired to respond to those memories. The brain often doesn't really store traumatic memories properly, which is believed to be part of why remembering traumatic memories often feels like reliving them for people with PTSD. And those connections in your brain just get reinforced every time you are triggered by something. EMDR involves going over the real memories, but combining them with more positive or safe associations. They call it 'desensitization and reprocessing'. It doesn't make you forget what really happened, it just helps with your neural pathways and how the memory is stored. So don't worry, I wouldn't really call it 'screwing with your memories' and more just 'rewiring faulty pathways'

6:44 I do know a guy diagnosed with psychopathy, and it's crazy how much control he has over his emotions. It's scary how manipulative he can get over the smallest things. He had killed a cat in his previous foster home. When asked about it he said he didn't have a killing tendency, just basic curiosity and knew he wouldn't feel anything if he had killed the cat, so there were no cons to this for him, only pros since his curiosity would be satisfied, and so he did it. But at the same time, if he sees other people react to certain things in certain ways, he mimics that behavior. Like if he sees someone sad over a particular thing, he does the same but overexaggerates it. Almost as if he's putting on a show. He grew raised in a dysfunctional family, so some of these things might not be from his diagnosis but rather personal things? He is alright with the law, and also quite a high achiever. Most people who know him probably won't ever think he has this diagnosis. Also to clarify, 'psychopathy' is not an official diagnosis. The actual diagnosis is antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). I'm just using that term for familiarity.

there's nothing inherently wrong with the brother and sister one in the last story, but for the most part there's probably a power dynamic between them that means it can't really be fully consensual, which is just not good

Hiya, I’m a dad and yea you can’t help guide your kid on how to react. If I overreact then so will my son. My son will act worse under his mom, my parents, or otherwise because they tend to baby him/over react, while I try to be more calm about it. So when my son fell off his bike I instantly stopped my mom and adopted a calm voice towards my son while checking if he’s okay. If I started to freak out on worry about him getting hurt he would have broken into crying and yet be being calm he saw my face and calmed down as well. He was totally fine, I replaced the helmet and his pants had to have stains removed haha. Another instance of this is when I get mad or upset so does my son. Kids will look at the person they are closet too to see how they should react. With me being the closets to him he looks at me first then he will look at others to see their reaction and if he should change depending on what he sees. It’s baffling and reminds me that I should be as loving and supporting towards my son as much as I possibly can because that’s what’s best for him and will help him grow “correctly”.

Experimenting on animals is so cruel 😢 they’re helpless and innocent

istg yall had like 9k last time i checked wth happeneddd congrats

Come to find out the second story actually got alcohol and was drunk, but the suggestion that it wasnt true instantly snapped them out of it....

😅 Fun fact: I learned how to trigger sleep paralysis in my teen years, i suffered from it frequently during those times, the worst one was sasquatch in my darkened room, right at the edge of my vision. Horrific, there is no rational thought when you cant move.

My son is not so easily manipulated, as he different parenting styles and people around him a lot. There's me who is firm but fair, my mother who has a short fuse but when she is happy with his behaviour acts all daft and wacky with him. People at groups, mothers taking a step back, leaving tots and children to be independent while the children all have their own personalities and styles of communicating etc. My son is the same in every situation and with each person - which is his mood on the day, he is also very perceptive at his young age of less than 2yrs old, he has known from 10months old when we're 'tricking ' him into doing or not doing something e.g distracting him with a fave thing so he won't cry when someone or something leaves his presence, or when we hide something out of view but he knows we have and though before he could walk about and find himself he just used to cry and point til we retrieved it cos he knew where it was, now he just goes and finds it himself lol. I get the emotional split second opinions though, is where our open mindness does get challenged and put into the spotlight. I think many do take that thought process of having an emotional response and not explaining it, is either or for many, like a thought is black or white - e.g I love him but don't know why or I am lucky to have him cos he's rich so practically I should stay with him though I feel no emotional attachment..thankfully I'm not black or white like most of society (I have questioned everything in my head and around me for many years every day, it's a lot of work, truly.we never stop learning) but then I do struggle with alexithymia which is a disorder that affects emotions, we feel things and know things but we don't know how to change it\how to show it \how to make progress cos we have no future plans due to us not seeing anything but the present etc, but then I do find it a blessing not just a curse cos it means I am truly living in the moment and trust what I feel in that moment, not make 'plans' or create strategies to get something or play mind games etc, cos for me everyone is equal as long as you're not a d*ck and not hurting egatively influencing anyone else is all good. Great vid, food for thought on growth psyche though so thanks :) (I work with children and wish to get into pro counselling so things like this go towards my understanding and when I need to write data and thesis :) )

Last story, I think is much to do with integrity, whether deserved integrity or perceived integrity.

10:24 I wouldn't lol. I'd just wonder why the hell they're doing that but I would not like facing the wall when the door would open soon

And now I want to try the mirror one lol

Ferb, I know what we’re gonna do today!

17:07 I want to do a test like this and see if my morality is different from the norm

I shall confuse some of you for no reason, here goes: Canada borders Denmark.

12:39 makes me wonder about adhd diagnosis

The flag one was like ok it's not bad and the brother and sister one I FEEL see what I did there, it's like is it healthy no but I think it depends on there relationship pryer.

in the last question I concluded that both stories were fine, for the 1st example I thought it was gross, but not wrong since no one got hurt, for example 2 I concluded that if the flag was her property (so no theft) that it was fine aswell

When I was a freshman, my Senior sister got more abusive & toxic, so I experimented peeing on her bed after she went to sleep & told everyone at school. They called her Tanya Tinkle. She's dead now 🥲 I miss my sister

5:05 Well if it's just done once ITS NOT AN EXPERIMENT THEN IS IT?

Makes me.sad they did that to Orphaned children and that doggie one, otherwise, very Interesting Thank you.

4:20 wonder what the *least* threatening color is, then

18:21 See, that's a gone horribly right type of logic. The reasoning given in the hypothetical is that it would "Strengthen their bond" which.. yeah, if it does, it could lead to codependency, clinginess, maybe more. But if it goes bad, congrats, you just fucked up a strong bond and potentially ruined and future familial relations that could come from you both starting a family later down the line, causing stress to the family as whole and maybe shattering it. They are thinking too much in the moment and not enough about how it could impact things down the line, not just for them but their whole family.

If people are facing the wall in an elevator I'm getting off ASAP

I'm trying to find a source for number 17.

story six was disgusting all of the people involved should be charged with animal cruelty story 19 is disgusting child abuse all people involved should be charged with abuse

Ooo sounds good edit story tryed this with a friend and it worked 3 times out of the 4 we did maybe we got a crazy one lol 4:08 no your not and if u are then I’m seeker that por dog

Your shirt is better to clean up any mess, everyone knows Flag fabric is terrible for cleaning with ;)

Which psychologist used kids and baby’s just to find out how young you would be able to excrete sperm/ eggs

the last one... i oftain ponder these things. mostly, its so ingrained during early teachings, that its become almost instinctual. any who do not think the same, or refused to take grasp on the instructions, dont become like minded and think outside the box, expirimenting more. its lead me to anouther way of thinking even. nothing is truly impossible, we just dont see the way to do it, thus assume there is no way. before the write brothers, people assumed flight was impossible. those two didnt think so and FOUND a way. before cars, people assumes travleing long distances fast wasnt posable without a horse. a breakthrue is all thats needed. and all a breakthrue is... is new information.

Story 11 - I feel the same way as you. I have CPTSD and if someone tried to change my traumatic memories into positive ones I'd walk out of the therapy session. Nothing good came out of that, there is no positivity to be had from the abuse I suffered through. If you try to tell me there is, *you're* the crazy one and I will not associate with you anymore.

look into a mirror and stare at your nose. things start to get... weird.

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People DIED for that flag.

Wow you don’t think it’s wrong to shred your country’s flag and you feel no patriotism. What’s it like to not have any respect for those that fought and died so you could take your freedom for granted