I'm looking for some suggestions about functional experiments, though humor's encouraged. Some of the better ones exampled involved finding how people reacted to others tailgating them in the lines for ATM's, having someone continuously let friends cut in line at the cafeteria, or some other kind of behaviour activity.
Thanks in advance, and just throw ideas out there. Provided they don't involve a lot of nudity. 
Ask people if they are homosapeints. Many students at my HS give me weird looks and deny it completely.
1. Stare at some object or up into the sky, and see how many people look in the same direction you are.
2. Get some friends, and form a line near some door you know won't open for a while. Don't say anything, just stand there as if you're waiting for something. See how many people line up behind you. Azrael Heavenblade fucked around with this message on 06-11-2004 at 12:55 AM.
damn.. wrong account... Saith fucked around with this message on 06-11-2004 at 12:56 AM.
I also recall that there is someplace on the internet where you can look up alot of payphone numbers. If they've got some listed for your general area (of if you can find them out another way), call them at random times and see if anybody answers. If they do, tell them why you're doing it, and ask them if they will tell you why they answered.
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Ask people if they like di-hydrogen oxide even though it can be deadly.Ask people if they are homosapeints. Many students at my HS give me weird looks and deny it completely.
A kid from church down in Arkansas past me a survey asking if I wanted to band Di-hydrogen oxide, because it caused sweating, vomiting, and occasional deaths. Over 35 people had signed to ban it, I was 1 of 3 to say no.
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Nobody really understood why Azrael Heavenblade wrote:
2. Get some friends, and form a line near some door you know won't open for a while. Don't say anything, just stand there as if you're waiting for something. See how many people line up behind you.
I Like that one!
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There's the classic "unmakred button" trick. Stick a button somewhere, and keep count of how many people press it just to see what it does. Variants on that include signs that say "Do Not Press", "Out of Order", and "In Case of Lobster, Press Button". You might try several different buttons, all similar save for the signs, and see which gets pressed more often. Of course, this trick requires that you get buttons with counters in them from somewhere.I also recall that there is someplace on the internet where you can look up alot of payphone numbers. If they've got some listed for your general area (of if you can find them out another way), call them at random times and see if anybody answers. If they do, tell them why you're doing it, and ask them if they will tell you why they answered.
I thought pay phones no longer took incoming calls?
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Azrael Heavenblade said:
2. Get some friends, and form a line near some door you know won't open for a while. Don't say anything, just stand there as if you're waiting for something. See how many people line up behind you.
This one works. I've done it.
Do it around or one a base. Yiou'll get lots of people.
quote:But what do you answer when people ask what you're waiting for?
I can still see Azrael Heavenblade's Dad, running after me with a shovel in his hand.
2. Get some friends, and form a line near some door you know won't open for a while. Don't say anything, just stand there as if you're waiting for something. See how many people line up behind you.
"I don't know"? 
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I thought pay phones no longer took incoming calls?
THere are two payphones at my college that get incomming calls... They happen to be in the Student Center which happens to be the only place where a payphone is inside. It gets Damn annoying. The phones are part of SBC/PacBell.
What he did, was he pretended he was from a military agency testing out new 'stealth' technology. He and his friends put on a big show of building an "invisible" wall in the middle of campus that ended at 4 feet, then had some more accomplices walk into it, pretend they'd walked into something solid, then try again by ducking under it.
Funny story; at the end, when they "blow up" the wall, the guy trips and almost breaks his foot...on nothing. Duh nuh!
Hope that helps.
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Put two people in a room, give them each a ball. You have two buckets. If the subject puts a ball in their own bucket, they get $5. If they put the ball in their friend's bucket, their friend gets $20. See what happens.
See how many people agree to put the ball's in each others bucket. Try it when the other person doesn't know what you do and the people are strangers. diadem fucked around with this message on 06-11-2004 at 03:24 PM.
More words than seven: Get a mask, put it on, and go about your daily affairs like that. See who reacts and what the reactions are. Giggle.
quote:Hard to compete with that. Though you might have trouble seeing the facial expressions of people as you walk around.
When they turned on the Infinite Improbability Drive, Nicole stammered,
More words than seven: Get a mask, put it on, and go about your daily affairs like that. See who reacts and what the reactions are. Giggle.
