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As a Psych 101 pupil in college , you may have participate in experiments grad scholar concoct as part of their research paper or theses . Ted Kaczynski did , and it was so extreme , it may have help regulate the worldview of the humans who would later on build and send 16 bombs , defeat three and spite 23 .
In 1959 , 17 - year - old Kaczynski was a sophomore at Harvard . He had complete gamy school at 15 , then enrol at the Ivy League school at an geezerhood when most teenagers are cramming for their driver ’s license tests .
At this young , impressible age , the future Unabomber was recruited for a psychological experimentation scat by famed psychologist Henry A. Murray . But unlike the ones you and I believably enter in during college , the experiment Murray conducted lastedthree years .
In it , Kaczynski and 21 other student were told to develop their personal philosophies on life story . Then they would debate that philosophy against another undergraduate student . But as it turned out , this wasno friendly discourse . When they read up to fence , the test subjects were attached to electrode , seated in a chairwoman facing a one - agency mirror , and subject to live , smart lights . The argument was n’t with a fellow undergrad at all , but a law scholar who had been told to go to townspeople on the ideals of these young man . To make matters speculative , they then had to watch telecasting of the arguing after it was over , which forced them to go through the humiliation all over again . Murray himselfcalled them"vehement , sweeping , and in person scurrilous " attacks .
Prior to this special stint at Harvard , Murray worked for the Office of Strategic Services ( the OSS , the forerunner to the CIA ) during WWII , educate spies to handle vivid interrogation from the foeman . Some expert believe that he simply continued that seam of report on unwitting undergrads .
Did having his moral and values ridiculed and abused push Kaczynski over the sharpness and eventually make him punish those who did n’t believe in his manifesto — include university professors ? Or did the cruel psychological discipline haveno effecton Kaczynski at all ? Perhaps the future terrorist had social trouble long before he stepped into Murray ’s office ? We may never jazz — the Murray Center has sealed any filing cabinet relating to Ted Kaczynski and the results of the experimentation he was part of , saying , " We have a very strong policy of maintain the confidentiality of mass who take part in studies archived here . This finicky file has been permanently take away , with the reason being that we can not protect its confidentiality any longer . "
