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LGarrett · Boot Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Austin, TX

Having read the memos in the message center from the website at DeathPrawn's mirror and having a Master's degree in Psychology, I have to admit that I'm honestly surprised at the use of the Milgram study. It's standard fare in any Introductory Psychology class, and is the reason that any professors doing human research have to obtain approval by a human subjects review board before performing said studies.

Asch is a bit more obscure and not usually even mentioned until Developmental Psychology courses. In my case, I didn't see Asch until Adolescent Psychology. His work was very influential on my personal paradigm, and Social Psychology is the specialty I would have ended up in if I had gone for a PhD.

Now I guess my next question is when is someone going to create a reality television show based on Philip G. Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment. Wink

**Posted:** Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:24 am

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eMouse · Decorated Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 179

I recall reading an article about how psychologists were eating up the various reality tv shows. The reason was that the shows would frequently tread on ground that is frowned upon or beyond the reach, in reasources, by the modern psychology community.

I believe one of the people interviewed for the article was Zimbardo.

**Posted:** Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:50 am

glop56 · Boot Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 20

I think it is great that we were able to pull so much information off the TT web site when it was brought back up. Although I have some questions about it.

The first being of course how access to these files were allowed. TT has gone to some extreme measures to make sure that all info about Dread House was deleted. They were basically systematically going through there company and eliminating all possible leaks. You figure that there shouldn't have been any copies of those files anywhere. Going hand in hand with that is why tell us exact an exact time for the files to be uploaded.

Next if it was a mistake to allow access to the DH info and they were obviously taken down shortly after appearing, who did it? Do we have another "insider" willing to help?

Yes, I understand that the PM needed to keep the game flowing, but that was way to easy.

**Posted:** Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:13 am

DeathPrawn · Boot Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 45

My spec is that it might have something to do with the fact that edmanda signed his latest e-mail to me as "Webmaster, www.tommorowstalk.com" from the webmaster@um address

**Posted:** Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:58 pm

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**Posted:** Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:57 pm

DeathPrawn · Boot Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 45

Note that on the TT web site, the webmaster position is "vacant" (as is VP of Operations), yet their web site was updated.

Also, comparing the current staff page to the Dread House memos, Sheila Worth was at some point replaced with Lisa Roman as the Talent Coordinator. They no longer seem to have a Location Coordinater, who was Suzanne Lane according to the memos.

For one last bit of observation/spec, the subject of the last DH memo (the "help me" one with the odd sender and receiver) is "7". The incident on the storyboard - where somebody died - is stunt #7.

FINALLY, I also dressed up my page a bit, so don't be surprised Razz

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I figured that since in-game characters are going to be (hopefully) looking at it, I may as well make it seem as in-game as possible.

**Posted:** Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:26 pm

The Watcher · Unfettered Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 493

Milgram's experiment, by the way, has been replicated in various reality shows, such as "Scare Tactics". Of course, unlike DH, real electric shocks were not given.

The thing with Scare Tactics that duplicated the experiment was that the guy giving the shocks was told that the guy receiving them had a heart condition- and might have a heart attack at a certain voltage. Of course, the giver shocked him at that voltage, even when the receiver began having fake fibrillation.

**Posted:** Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:43 pm

retep01 · Boot Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 18

LOL Garret could you imagine a reality show on the Zimbardo experiment. That would be insane....like true life survivor. It is facinating stuff a anyone with any interest in psychology should check out the site on it...lots of good video and stuff.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 24, 2004 12:17 am

Schnell-Davis · Boot Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 31 Location: Las Vegas, NV

Zimbardo experiment reality show

**Posted:** Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:47 am

retep01 · Boot Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 18

**Posted:** Fri Sep 24, 2004 12:31 pm

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**Posted:** Fri Sep 24, 2004 7:40 pm

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LGarrett · Boot Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Austin, TX

Re: Zimbardo experiment reality show

**Posted:** Sat Sep 25, 2004 2:09 am

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**Posted:** Sat Sep 25, 2004 4:58 pm

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Very small thing, I just checked the Cyphers "headshot" stereogram - it's of TWO skeletons. Probably a mistake in creation, but noteable.

**Posted:** Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:54 am

RobMagus

Mycroft, that was common problem when we were looking at the stereogram. It's small enough that you can overcross your eyes, making two images rather than just the one that is actually there.

**Posted:** Sun Sep 26, 2004 2:39 pm

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