Sketchy and Unethical Psychological Experiments

Midnight Facts for Insomniacs · Oct 8, 2020 · 39m

Modern researchers are expected to follow strict ethical guidelines, but it wasn't always this way. For thousands of years, scientific experimentation was a free-for-all, and while American psychological experiments may never have reached Josef Mengele levels on the Evil Meter, there have been some notorious misfires that were downright disturbing. Follow along as Shane and Duncan explore some of the sketchiest psychological experiments every conducted.

In this episode:

The Milgram Experiment

Robber's Cave

The Monster Study

The Stanford Prison Experiment

...and more

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