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Originally posted by Verloren
they are in a highly artificial environment. It's hard applying psychological principles to that.
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Not unless you consider that as a confounding variable.
It's kind of like a double-bluff, instead of analysing their behaviour within a controlled environment, they take into account that the environment is artificial, and then analyse the behaviour from that.
Personally I don't like the show much because it hardly endears to beyond-basic Psychological ideas. But then again I can understand fully why they wouldn't want to go too in-depth because they wouldn't have a large target audience.