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Game show contestants ignored actor's cries to stop electric shocks
Reality television often ends in humiliation and ridicule for those taking part. But who would be prepared to take part in a game show which featured torture and even death? The answer is most of us, judging by the results of a French experiment which involved asking people to inflict electric shocks on a fellow contestant in what they thought was a new reality TV concept. Eighty per cent of the participants ignored pleas to stop and shrieks of pain as they continued increasing the voltage in response to wrong answers on Zone Xtreme. ''Is he dead?'' asked one contestant when the voltage reached 400 and the victim fell silent.