get yourselves to hollywood
The first season it was on TV, I used to watch
Temptation Island, which appealed to the sadistic psychologist in me. I took a certain perverse (yet scientific) pleasure watching the producers toy with the emotions of the participants. Reality TV, I realized at the time, was the ultimate end-run around the pesky
APA Code of Ethics.
I'm not the only one to have figured this out. Robert Epstein, editor of
Psychology Today, is running
an "experiment"/reality show to find himself a wife. The BBC
made an aborted attempt to replicate Zimbardo's
Stanford Prison Experiment. And as
Razib pointed out, SpyTV seems to have roughly reproduced
Milgram's experiment on obedience to authority.
Budding social scientists, get yourselves to Hollywood!