PARIS (AP) — Are there any limits to what people will do on TV?
A documentary that's being aired on a French state-run TV channel is suggesting that there might not be.
The documentary focuses on a fake game show in which participants are told to deliver increasingly powerful shocks to a man. Most of them do so -- until the man, who is really an actor, appears to die.
In the end, producers say, more than four in five "players" gave the maximum jolt.
The producers of "The Game of Death" say they wanted to examine what they say is TV's ability to suspend morality -- along with the willingness of humans to obey orders.
The experiment was based on the work of a psychologist who carried out an experiment at Yale in the 1960s. It found that most ordinary people — if encouraged by an authoritative-seeming scientist — would administer what appear to be dangerous electric shocks to others.
