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kingcandy
Since: Jun, 2013
27th May, 2017 08:14:10 AM
sounds like brain games to me
I think it might be Brain Games but I don't think so. The biggest clip that I remember is having random people on the show who have trouble in the dating scene go through a scenario. The whole bit is about priming, where the host keeps dropping "three" in conversation or the concept of three. For example, the car ride was three hours long, the walk is only three hundred feet or whatever.
And at the end of it the contestant chooses a pit to fall into. I think he's told that only one pit doesn't have spikes. Naturally, he chooses the third pit, which is safe. We're assured after the fact that if he didn't choose the third pit, it would've been called off.
I think in the same show they were talking about how the power of suggestion works and the guy was presenting flowers to random people, and they all reacted to the tune of "OMG, how did you know?" even though apparently he was priming them to want whatever type of flower he had.
I'm not sure when it was on air but it was probably around 2011-2012