Game show contestants electrocuted others on France’s Game of Death; it was really a social experiment By admin 18 March 2010 at 8:11 am and have No Comments

A French game show asked contestants to electrocute fellow contestants when they answered questions incorrectly, and they did so as the audience chanted and demanded punishment. But the electrocution wasn’t real–the recipients are actors–and the show was actually created for a documentary that recreates Yale social psychologist Stanley Milgram’s 1960s experiments in obedience

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Game show contestants electrocuted others on France’s Game of Death; it was really a social experiment

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