Top Ten Unethical Expts

Back in the days when men were men and women were women, psychologists were often completely mental. With no ethics boards to keep a lid on scientific enthusiasm, researchers carried out some truly amazing feats of immorality. Stef Jones and Mark Steer have picked out some of their favourites.

THE NULL'S TOP TEN UNETHICAL PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENTS
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	The Bystander Effect Classic research that sorted the good Samaritans from the bad eggs - which one are you? 1/5

	Universal Facial Expressions Do emotions evoke universal facial expressions or do we all have different gurning styles? 2/5

	The Addictiveness of Drugs A simple experiment - give a monkey some drugs and wait and see what happens. 2/5

	MK-Ultra The CIA are probably the last people you expect to be giving away free drugs, and setting up brothels in the process. 3/5

	The Standford Prison Experiment Create a false prison, randomly assign volunteers as prisoners or guards, let the brutality begin. 3/5

	The Monster Study If you criticise a child's every move, you can make them stutter. Evil b b b b b b b b bastards! 4/5

	Curing Homosexuality Drugs, electricity and gay porn; sounds like the recipe for a complete disaster. 4/5

	The Well of Despair How to get yourself a bad reputation in science - socially torture monkeys for a living. 4/5

	Milgram's Obedience Study How far would you go to inflict pain if someone in authority was telling you to do it? 4/5

	Little Albert Give a child a pet rat and then teach them to be scared to death every time they go near it. 5/5