I found these amusing videos on youtube about Milgram’s ideas about obedience. Our obedience experiment in class yielded supportive results that people do indeed tend to go with the group. The experiments on these videos would be fun to try. I know I’m planning on trying some next time I’m in the middle of a large amount of people (:
looking up to the sky http://youtube.com/watch?v=rF79NzZ6P_w
pick it up http://youtube.com/watch?v=vUY42fROiK8
April 8, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Another fun thing to do is to violate one of those unspoken norms–refuse to conform with the group’s expectation. Cut in line, look directly at people in an elevator, violate personal space, and watch how people react. (It’s probably not such a hot idea to do in public, actually).