Facts, basics, statistics, tests

participant was then exposed to various stimuli that Landis chose in
order to elicit a strong response. As each test subject responded, a
photograph of his or her face was taken by Landis. The stimuli
Landis used included making the subjects smell ammonia, look at
pornography, and place their hands in a bucket full of frogs. The
final part of the test, however, was the most disturbing.
In the final stage of the experiment, Landis presented a live rat to
the subjects and told them they had to behead it. Even though every
participant was disgusted by the notion, two-thirds actually did it.
For the one-third of the participants that had refused to decapitate
the rat, Landis did it for them.
While the Landis facial expressions experiment did little to show
any universality among facial expression and its relation to
emotion, it did anticipate the results that Stanley Milgram would
have with his obedience studies, which would occur forty years later.
Landis, however, was too focused on his work involving facial
expressions to see that the compliance of his test subjects was the
most interesting aspect of his study.

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PERSONALITY
What makes you … you?
When discussing personality, psychologists look at the thoughts,
behaviors, and emotions that an individual has that make him or her
unique—also known as a “mental system.” Personality is
individualized, and, for the most part, it will remain consistent
throughout an individual’s life. While there are many interpretations
as to what constitutes personality, several key characteristics are
generally accepted in the field of study:
In general, there is a consistency and noticeable order to
behavior. People behave in the same or similar ways in
different types of situations.
Personality influences how a person behaves and responds to
their environment, and is also the cause of behaving in