It's just so insidious. I found myself starting to wonder what the hell I was doing applying my ideals to real life, since clearly that's just silly. There's group/mob mentality combined with the tendency to go along with authority working pretty hard. You always assume the other person knows what they are talking about.

Of course, the experiments themselves might skew it for me: apparently "For SCIENCE!" is the code phrase that opens my Secret Access Panel. I'll do anything For SCIENCE! So asking me to do something as part of an experiment may not work.