Scientist builds remote-controlled collapsing chair to study fear in people

[Bmustdie]

GLaDOS would be pleased.

[sockdoll]

[vrplumber]

[shmello]

I have a violent, uncontrollable reaction to loud noises. This prank would probably send me to the hospital. I’d rather just fall down.

My father was a fan of explosions, guns and Harleys. Mine was not a happy childhood.

[Sigmund]

@pesco

In all cases they acknowledged that they had not anticipated ‘anything like it at all.’ From these statements, it was concluded that the stimulus was wholly unexpected, and unsuspected."

Fear != surprise

I would not fear sitting on a padded chair in a lab. I would fear sitting on a padded chair on Ted Bundy’s basement.