curious Lloyd psychology as we know it is a relatively young science but since his Inception it has helped us gain a greater understanding of ourselves and our interactions with the world many psychological experiments have been valid and ethical allowing researchers to make new treatments and therapies available and giving other insights into our motivations and actions sadly others have ended up backfiring horribly ruining lives and shaming the profession here are 10 psychological experiments that spired out of control contr the Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971 social psychologist Philip zimbardo set out to interrogate the ways in which people conform to social roles using a group of male college students to take part in a two- weekl long experiment in which they would live as prisoners and guards in the mock prison however having selected his test subjects zimbardo assigned them their roles without their knowledge unexpectedly arresting the prisoners outside their own homes the results were disturbing ordinary college students turned into viciously sadistic guards and spineless and increasingly distraught prisoners becoming deeply in mesh with their roles they were playing after just 6 days the distressing reality of this prison forced Simo to prematurely end the [Music] experiment the monster study in this study conducted in 1939 22 or orphan children 10 with stutters were separated equally into two groups one with a speech therapist who conducted positive therapy by praising the children's progress and fluency of speech the other were the speech therapists who openly chastised the children for the slightest mistake the results showed that children who have received negative responses were badly affected in terms of their psychological Health yet more bad news was to come as it was later revealed that some of the children who had previously developed speech problems following the experiment in 2007 six of the orphan children were awarded $920,000 in compensation for emotional damage that the six-month study had left them [Music] with the MK Ultra the CIA performed many unethical experiments into mind control and psychology under the banner of project MK Ultra during the ' 50s and 60s Theodore kchunky otherwise known as the unabomb is reported to have been a test subject in the cia's disturbing experiments which may have contributed to his mental instability in another case the administration of LSD to the US Army biological weapons expert Frank Olsen is thought to have sparked a crisis of conscience inspiring him to tell the world about his research instead Olson is said to have committed suicide jumping from a 13-story hotel room window although there is strong evidence that he was murdered this doesn't even touch on the long-term psychological damage other test subjects are likely to have [Music] suffered elephant on LSD in 1962 Warren Thomas the director of Lincoln Park Zoo in Oklahoma City injected an elephant named tusco with 3,000 times the typical human dose of LSD it was an attempt to make his mark on the scientific Community by determining whether the drug could induce the aggressiveness and high hormone levels that male eleph experience periodically the only contribution Thomas made was to create a public relations disaster as tusco died almost immediately after collapsing and going into convulsions the mgram experiment in 1963 in the wake of the atrocities of the Holocaust Stanley Milgram set out to test the hypnosis that there was something special about the German people that had allowed them to participate in genocide under the pretense of an experiment into human learning mgram asked normal members of the public to ask questions to a man attached to an electric shock generator and shook him in increasing measure when he answered incorrectly the man was an actor the shocks were fake but the participants didn't know this the terrifying part where people overwhelmingly obeyed the commands of the experimentor even when the man screamed an apparent Agony and beg for mercy does that mean we all have a little evil in all of us perhaps [Music] Tony lamadre many medicated schizophrenics enrolled in a University of California study that required them to stop taking their medication in a program that started in 1983 the study was meant to give information that would allow doctors to better treat schizophrenia but rather it messed up the lives of many test subjects 90% of whom relapsed into episodes of mental illness one participant Tony lamadre leaped to his death from a rooftop 6 years after first enrolling into the study the pit of despair psychologist Harry harlo was obsessed with the concept of love but rather than writing poems or love songs he performed sick twisted experiments on monkeys during the 1970s one of his experiments revolved around confining the monkeys in total isolation in an apparatus he called well of Despair a featureless empty chamber depriving the animal of any stimulus or socialization which resulted in his subjects going insane and even starving themselves to death in two cases harow ignored the criticism of his colleagues and is quoted as saying how could you love monkeys the last laugh was on him however as his horrific treatment of his subjects is acknowledged as being a driving force behind the development of the animal rights movement and the end of such cruel experiments the third wave running along a similar the theme to The mgram Experiment the third wave carried out in 1967 was an experiment that set out to explore the ways in which Democratic societies can be infiltrated by the apparel of fascism using a class of high school students the experimenter created a system whereby some students were considered members of a prestigious order the students showed increased motivation to learn yet more worryingly became eager to get on board with evil-minded practices such as excluding non-members from the class even more scarily this Behavior was gleefully continued outside of the classroom after Just 4 days the experiment was considered to be slipping out of control and was ceased homosexual aversion therapy in the 1960s homosexuality was frequently depicted as a mental illness with many individuals seeking voluntary or otherwise a way to cure themselves of their sexual attraction to members of the same sex experimental therapy at the time included aversion therapies where homosexual images were paired with such things as electric shocks and injections that caused vomiting the thought was that the patient would associate pain with homosexuality rather than curing homosexuality these experiments profoundly psychologically damaged the patients with at least one man dying from the treatment he received after he went into a coma David rmer in 1966 when d David rer was 8 months old his circumcision was botched and he lost his penis due to Burns psychologist John money suggested that baby David be given a sex change the parents agreed but what they didn't know was that money secretly wanted to use David as part of an experiment to prove his views that gender identity was not inborn but rather determined by nature and upbringing David was renamed Brenda surgically altered to have a vagina and given hormonal supplements but tragically this experiment backfired Brenda acted like a stereotypical boy throughout childhood and the Rama family began to fall apart at 14 Brenda was told the truth and decided to go back to being David he committed suicide at the age of 38 if you enjoyed this video give it a like and possibly subscribe and I'll will see you Sunday with another video