Can we have a thread about fucked up psychology experiments?

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>>19005358
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_of_despair
TL;DR

>Be an American psychologist named Harry Harlow
>in the 70's your wife dies due to cancer
>Get depressed
>Your colleges noticed a difference in your demeanor
>Start experimenting with baby monkeys

>Baby monkeys were placed in these boxes soon after birth; four were left for 30 days, four for six months, and four for a year.
>After 30 days, the "total isolates", as they were called, were found to be "enormously disturbed". After being isolated for a year, they barely moved, did not explore or play, and were incapable of having sexual relations. When placed with other monkeys for a daily play session, they were badly bullied. Two of them refused to eat and starved themselves to death.
> Artificial insemination had not then been developed; instead, Harlow devised what he called a "rape rack", to which the female isolates were tied in normal monkey mating posture.

Yes a fucking rape rack

>The female monkeys got pregnant
>"Not even in our most devious dreams could we have designed a surrogate as evil as these real monkey mothers were"
>Having no social experience themselves, they were incapable of appropriate social interaction. One mother held her baby's face to the floor and chewed off his feet and fingers. Another crushed her baby's head. Most of them simply ignored their offspring
>These experiments showed Harlow what total and partial isolation did to developing monkeys, but he felt he had not captured the essence of depression, which he believed was characterized by feelings of loneliness, helplessness, and a sense of being trapped, or being "sunk in a well of despair", he said

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>>19005373
Charles Snowdon, a junior member of the faculty at the time, who became head of psychology at Wisconsin, said that Harlow had himself been very depressed by his wife's cancer. Snowdon was appalled by the design of the vertical chambers. He asked Suomi why they were using them, and Harlow replied, "Because that's how it feels when you're depressed."[13] Leonard Rosenblum, who studied under Harlow, told Lauren Slater that Harlow enjoyed using shocking terms for his apparatus because "he always wanted to get a rise out of people." [14]

>>19005358
The Monster Study, 1939

>The Monster Study was a stuttering experiment on 22 orphan children in Davenport, Iowa, in 1939 conducted by Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa. Johnson chose one of his graduate students, Mary Tudor, to conduct the experiment and he supervised her research.
>After placing the children in control and experimental groups, Tudor gave positive speech therapy to half of the children, praising the fluency of their speech, and negative speech therapy to the other half, belittling the children for every speech imperfection and telling them they were stutterers.
>Many of the normal speaking orphan children who received negative therapy in the experiment suffered negative psychological effects and some retained speech problems during the course of their life. Dubbed “The Monster Study” by some of Johnson’s peers who were horrified that he would experiment on orphan children to prove a theory, the experiment was kept hidden for fear Johnson’s reputation would be tarnished in the wake of human experiments conducted by the Nazis during World War II. The University of Iowa publicly apologized for the Monster Study in 2001.

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>>19005693
In 1965, psychologists Mark Seligman and Steve Maier conducted an experiment in which three groups of dogs were placed in harnesses. Dogs from group one were released after a certain amount of time, with no harm done. Dogs from group two were paired up and leashed together, and one from each pair was given electrical shocks that could be ended by pressing a lever. Dogs from group three were also paired up and leashed together, one receiving shocks, but the shocks didn’t end when the lever was pressed. Shocks came randomly and seemed inevitable, which caused “learned helplessness,” the dogs assuming that nothing could be done about the shocks. The dogs in group three ended up displaying symptoms of clinical depression.

Later, group three dogs were placed in a box with by themselves. They were again shocked, but they could easily end the shocks by jumping out of the box. These dogs simply “gave up,” again displaying learned helplessness. The image above is a healthy pet dog in a science lab, not an animal used in experimentation.

Poor doggos.

3 christs of ypsilanti.
-3 people messed up in the head who believed they were jesus christ were put together in the same place to see if they would come to the realization that they weren't really jesus christ

>>19006742
I forgot about this, really need to get the book.

>>19005693
Wasn't the Unibomber subjected to a similar experiment? This was actually proven at a later point; Teacher is tasked by some behavioral scientist to find a kid with antisocial actions and put him under pressure. Rips apart his essay on technology in front of his peers.

>>19006939
>Wasn't the Unibomber subjected to a similar experiment?

Haven't heard of this. Looked it up and first thing I found was this.

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2017/04/04/hirh-unabomber-psych-test.cnn

>>19005373
Fuck that guy

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>>19005358

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_Chile

>>19005358
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/general-security-specific-artichoke-report

Most people in this field have heard of MKULTRA. Well, that was 1970s. Artichoke and Bluebird predate it by 20 years. Apparently suggestion and chemical exposure didn't work, so they went further. The Adobe file on the page should let you see the photo copy.