"When you're playing in public against a friend with people cheering you on, it's very hard to throw in the towel without putting up a good fight. I've seen people leave the table with blood on their hands and their skin completely raw because they didn't want to back down in front of an audience."
Heh, there is an industrial band (probably German) called PainStation.
Seagram's experiment? Is that some early unsuccessful anti-piracy technology from Universal or something?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think
Seagram's experiment was that one where
subjects were asked to inflict pain to
supposed "subjects" of a fictitious
experiment when they made a mistake. It
showed that, even when the people in front
of them were screaming in agony, the subjects
were willing to keep pushing the "pain"
button, as long as they felt that they were
under someone else's orders.
Correction: the above mentioned experiment was the "Milgram" one. See http://designweb.otago.ac.nz/grant/psyc/OBEDIANCE.HTML
Wow. Reminds me a little of Seagram's experiment.