Video: Derren Brown demonstrates how mobs form and groupthink takes over

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Aired tonight on Britain's Channel 4. Think how Fox News does exactly the same type of thing that happens in this hour:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scOJqyiYVtk

(If you're impatient, you can safely skip the first 7 minutes, which are just a preliminary demonstration.)

http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/nkjkw/the-experiments-derren-brown-the-gameshow

Brown knows his psychology and here he puts his talents to good use as he turns himself into a game show host. It’s the jumping off point for a thoughtful look at the darkness that lurks within all of us. Using his usual armoury of stunts and suggestion Brown, the master, draws us in to show how easily we can be made to bend to another’s will.

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2/4. The illusionist continues his social experiments, this time hosting a game show to test people's capacity for evil and investigating whether belonging to a group affects an individual's sense of right and wrong.