Research into the wonders of the world’s most complex biological machine – the human brain – has spawned surprisingly inhuman psychological experiments. From hypnosis, brainwashing to psychological torture. Here are the most horrifying psychological experiments in history.
Artichoke Project – The CIA has conducted a series of mind control projects to interrogate special subjects. They use different methods and materials such as hypnosis, LSD, total isolation. As a result, subjects to become dull, dodgy, insane.
In 1951, the CIA’s Office of Scientific Information initiated a mind control project called “Artichoke”. This project was overseen by a representative from CIA research staff, former Army general, Paul F. Gaynor, and gathered information from intelligence units of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Army and FBI. The project was also posed to answer the question, “Can we control an individual to the point of fully complying with the given orders, even if the individual disagrees with the order and even obeys the order? obey orders that are contrary to the basic laws of nature, such as the law of survival?” The project also conducts experiments at home and abroad, using LSD stimulants, hypnosis and using complete isolation to develop techniques for interrogating human subjects. Similarly, experiments on forcing morphine addiction, drug addiction, and using chemicals that affect memory were also carried out. CIA selects disadvantaged people in society as the target of the project. These include homosexuals, ethnic minorities and prisoners of war. Experimental sites are isolated places in Japan, Europe, Asia and the Philippines. As a result of this inhuman experiment, the participants suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, amnesia and more. Dengue virus was also used in the experiments. Operation Midnight Climax – As part of a CIA-funded mind control project, this project lures subjects to safe spots and secretly gives them LSD or other addictive substances. As a result, the participants “went crazy” in public many times. 
Frank Olson and Allen Dulles During the 1950s, the CIA selected safe houses in San Francisco, Marin, and New York City as brothels. These safe houses acted as brothels to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events. The CIA hires prostitutes to lure customers into the brothel, then they are secretly given drugs and monitored by the CIA through a one-way mirror. These lured visitors are also subject to extensive research into the effects of sexual blackmail, surveillance technology, and sloppiness on field operations. Not only were they forced to be reluctant guinea pigs, these subjects were also threatened and forced to keep the experiment a secret, otherwise they would continue to be reluctant guinea pigs. The strategy soon expanded and CIA agents began drugging civilians at restaurants, bars, and beaches. Not only civilians, but CIA agents, US military personnel and suspected Soviet spies were drugged and became reluctant research subjects. As a result, there are many cases where the subject is depressed for a long time. There are also reports of several deaths as a result of this project. Other side effects include a case where an employee was drugged in his morning cup of coffee and went insane, running across Washington, screaming that there were monsters in every car that passed him. In another case, a doctor who had never used drugs was drugged, and fell into severe depression. He jumped from the 13th floor. Stanford Prison Trial – the Stanford prison experiment funded by the US Navy to investigate the psychological effects of power, focusing on the power struggle between prisoners and dementors. The experiment came to an abrupt end after six days when some of the participants were drawn into the role of warden, used coercive measures, and even psychologically tortured the prisoners. On August 14, 1971, Professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo of Sandford University began an experiment to test the hypothesis that inmates’ inherent personality traits and prison price were the main cause of these inmates. violent behavior in prison. He recruited 24 of the most mentally healthy and stable male students. He announced they would be participating in a two-week prison simulation. The U.S. Office of Naval Research funded this study to investigate the causes of difficulties among guards and prisoners in the military. 
Dr. Zimbardo provided the participants with wooden batons and asked them not to harm the prisoners or starve them. However, he asked the guards to apply psychological pressure by “giving inmates a certain sense of boredom, fear, creating a concept that their lives are completely occupied. controlled by us, by this system, by you, and me, and they won’t have their privacy… We’re going to take away their freedom in different ways. I.e., in this case, we will have all the power and they will have nothing.” The members who play the role of prisoners are “locked up” at home and “condemned” “Armed robbery. The local police assisted Zimbardo in conducting the full arrest and detaining procedures, including fingerprinting and inmate photography. The police also transport prisoners from the police station to a mock prison, where stripped prisoners are searched and given their new identities. The terrible results started from the second day on. Some inmates began to resist the guard’s instructions, and one guard used a fire extinguisher to attack the prisoners. Within 36 hours, one inmate started going insane and screaming, cursing, and becoming very agitated. It took a while for the team overseeing the experiment to realize that the prisoner was actually suffering from psychological pain. Later, the guards began to harass the prisoners mentally and physically. The experiment was forced to stop after just six days, as many of the guards became increasingly ruthless, and about a third of the guards displayed genuine sadistic tendencies. Most of the prison guards were disappointed when the experiment stopped after only six days Milgram experiment nghiệm This Yale University psychology experiment measures a subject’s willingness to obey an authority figure. In the experiment, they separated two participants into two rooms, they could hear but couldn’t see each other. They then asked the tester to ask the other question a question, and if the answer was wrong, they were electrocuted. Contrary to the expectations of the researchers, the trial showed that a very large proportion of people were willing to comply, even though unwillingly, even at the risk of serious injury and suffering. 
Milgram test Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University in 1961, began a series of psychosocial experiments to gauge the willingness of study participants, men from a variety of professions. each other with different educational backgrounds, obeying an authority figure to engage in behavior that conflicts with their personal conscience. The trial began three months after the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem opened. Milgram developed this study to answer the hot question of the times: “Did Eichmann and his millions of accomplices in the Holocaust just follow orders? Can we consider them all accomplices? This test has been repeated many times over the years with consistent results globally. In it, they assigned the roles of teacher and learner to two participants. They chose an actor for the role of the learner and a test subject for the role of the teacher. However, they do not let the subject know that the actor is also a teacher. Instead, they just chatted. Milgram then placed the two in an adjoining room and strapped the actor to an electric chair. He also told the subject that the learner (actor) had a heart condition. They also gave the subject a sample electric shock to experience the pain the learner would experience. They give the teacher a list of word pairs to teach the learners. The teacher then reads the first word of each pair and gives the learners four options to choose the correct answer. For each wrong answer, the teacher must shock the learner. The voltage level will increase by 15 volts for each wrong answer. Some subjects stopped electrocuting learners at 135 volts, however, the majority continued as they were assured they would not be held liable. Others, upon hearing their learners’ screams, begin to show signs of extreme stress such as nervous laughter. In the first experiment, 65% of the participants delivered an electric shock to 450 volts, the highest voltage level of the test. In addition to the electric shock, the participants also suffered mental stress. Monster Research – University of Iowa trial involving orphans as subjects from Davenport, Iowa. The supervisor divides these children into two groups and administers individual skills therapy to each group. One group was instructed with positive words and the other group had to listen to negative instructions. As a result, there are children with lasting psychological effects. 
In 1939, Wendell Johnson, a professor at the University of Iowa with the help of his student, Mary Tudor, conducted an experiment with 22 orphans from Davenport, Iowa. They selected 22 subjects from an orphanage for wounded soldiers and martyrs in Iowa. They hid the children the purpose of the study and said they would receive speech therapy. Out of 22 students, 10 stuttered, and the purpose of these experiments was to try to make healthy children stutter; and see if it’s helpful to encourage stuttering children that their speech doesn’t matter. This experiment produced negative psychological effects on the orphans of the second group. Some of them have stuttered for life. The experiment became known as the “Monster Test” because some of Johnson’s colleagues were horrified to learn that he was testing on orphans to confirm a hypothesis. Johnson never published the results of the experiments in any peer-reviewed journal, and Tudor’s thesis was the only official record of the details of the experiment. The experiment was kept secret because he was afraid of damaging his reputation, during a period of human experimentation conducted by Nazi Germany during World War II.
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