Roof Top Psychology

Social Experiments


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     What studies have happened at universities that would shock you to know about?  Would it surprise you to know that individuals have been asked to shock another person to death in the name of psychology? Do you think social conformity is a real thing?  Have you been influenced by design either by the news or social media to conform to "new social norms?"  Are you going to be as astonished as I was to learn that a study of rats on the premise of how influential "hope" can be would lead to them swimming for 60 hours straight!  Can we learn something from rats to better understand how children play? Take a moment to listen so you can verify just how many of these experiments you yourself partake in everyday! 

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Roof Top PsychologyBy Maverick