He revisits Stanley Milgram's disturbing tests on obedience conducted at Yale, and goes on to draw some further useful conclusions about how human behaviour is affected by the presence of others, using the notorious example of the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese in New York (38 people saw her killed; not one called the police - they all thought someone else would).
The famous Stanley Milgram experiments -- in which a disturbing number of test subjects willingly administered what they thought were painful electric shocks to others -- are a key exhibit.
These results left investigators with a disturbing reality: in the test in which they used the equivalent of a scale-model toy car, the results suggested that the fireproofing was sufficient.
However, we apply (in the subsequent probe data samples) the same change for a given period of time, which potentially gives us the possibility of further disturbing the system under test.
The results on the Common Core Math tests are disturbing for all students, but especially disturbing when broken down by race, ethnicity, and social class.
Our study also confirmed this disturbing phenomenon: during the tests carried out in Year 1, the overload of school backpacks was found among 60% of the respondents.
The results of the Aveo's recent safety test were so disturbing that Maria Fernanda Rodriguez, president of the Latin division of NCAP, wrote to GM CEO Mary Barra about the dearth of safety features in the automaker's cars sold in Latin American markets.
Re "A Special Drug": The views of doctors, drug companies and insurers toward genetic testing reveal a disturbing focus on profits.
"To have heard of parents who collect urine from their kids under false pretences (suggesting that it's for the child's medical well-being) so that they can pass their tests is very disturbing to me, but not surprising," Swain said.
While the study demonstrated the influence of social context on individual behavior, its disturbing legacy prevented further comparable tests.
