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- A young American computer hackeress is hired by a liberal British lawyer to right the wrong done to a third world country by a London investment company. Even the expertise of her building inspector sidekick can not prevent a surprising development though.
- The epic battle for the future of mankind is fought between an angel of light and an angel of death.
- It is a psychological documentary portraying a three day experiment conducted by Dr. Mark McDermott and Dr. Phil Zimbardo.
- In this program - day two at The Human Zoo - the group is divided into two separate but distinctly unequal teams in order to study the concept of herd mentality. In a struggle to reconcile their conflicting loyalties, the subjects make some hard choices as yesterday's group bonding dissolves into adversarial team rivalry. Other researchers also examine clique mentality, bystander apathy, and diffusion of responsibility. As a counterpoint, the effects of positive herd behavior are illustrated by a Weight Watchers support group. Archival footage of Dr. Zimbardo's controversial 1971 Stanford University "prison" experiment is also included.
- We are all amateur psychologists, because most of what we do is designed to influence what others think of us. What do people look for when sizing up others during an initial meeting? How do these judgments influence their conduct? And how far will they go to hit it off? This program analyzes the subtle dynamics of meeting new people as Day One in the Human Zoo unfolds. In addition, other researchers explore the impact of first impressions at a job interview, how physical attractiveness affects success, the parameters of personal space, and facial expressions associated with deceit. Dr. Mark McDermott and Dr. Phil Zimbardo used hidden cameras to observe how a group of strangers will interact during the first day of what the subjects know is a psychological experiment. Immediate friendships and hostilities are watched by the professors; these scenes are inter-cut with other researchers exploring such dynamics as the impact of first impressions at a job interview and how physical attractiveness affects success. Actor/comedian Charlie Skelton, among others, intrudes on the personal space of British citizens who do not know they are being filmed, and three test subjects are required to undergo the temptation of robbery and then filmed while they deny their guilt to an inquisitor. The documentary returns in the end to The Human Zoo to dramatize how the group of strangers has bonded or formed private friendships in emotional and occasionally bizarre ways, as when one subject, Richard, who had felt himself to be an outsider all day, became a local hero to some of them when he stole beers from the facility's refrigerator and passed them around to the others.