Originally Posted by dyna mo

i've tried to make note of it re: home protection. hopefully just realizing there is a massive tendency to freeze in that situation will help keep it from happening.

i do think people can and do lockstep to what they are told to do.

there was a psych. experiment mentioned elsewhere here, not sure if it's the same but there's a fantastic one where they instruct volunteers to shock the shit out of people on the other side of a wall, ne actual electrocution is done. they are told the victims deserve it and to up the voltage even though they hear peeps screaming in pain.