... subjects in a hypnotist's show - Anglobitch: Hypnotic Self-Delusion: How Sexual False Consciousness Works

Anglobitch: Hypnotic Self-Delusion: How Sexual False Consciousness Works

" ... nothing 'happens' to the subjects in a hypnotist's show. For the most part, the participants eating onions, singing arias and dancing the polka are
their normal selves. Their enthusiastic participation relates more to a
deep human need for social conformity than any real change in their
mental condition. That is, they do not want to upset the
audience/hypnotist/other participants by failing to 'act up to'
expectations. Brown uses the famous Milgram Experiment to
illustrate this deep human need to  conform. When test subjects were
told to administer imaginary electric shocks to an actor, most of them
did so without demur. Even when the actor was howling in mock agony, the subjects did not desist."