Every couple of weeks, each group member has to nominate two others for ouster. Then viewers vote on who to kick out. The Dutch Institute of Psychologists for one, was worried enough to issue a press release announcing that the experiment could be dangerous to the participants, who range in age from 20 to 44. In spite of modern-day fears of surveillance, the cameras are not what worries the psychologists most. Wiring a domestic space for TV is just a symptom of the current tendency to make the private public, said psychologist Eric Haas, one of the authors of the statement.
People have few problems revealing who they are and their psychological makeup in front of others.
It summons people to brief daily chats with the show's editors in a special room. And it instructs them to do other tasks, like carrying out a group project such as inflating and releasing 200 helium balloons with notes attached. The group is the reality, and people are very obedient to Big Brother. He cited the famous Milgram experiment of the 1960s, in which subjects delivered what they thought were severe electric shocks to strangers when told to by an authority figure. Haas likened their isolation to being in a cult.