About a year ago, I went on a reality television show
This suggests a very easy way of inducing conditions appropriate to a more thorough testing of rationality. Any student who insists on leaving (which I think you’d be ethically obliged to allow for) would receive a failing grade. See how well the rest manage to be rational despite the circumstances.
alcohol
This one is probably also eminently doable, especially in a casual setting. I’m sure enough people would object to “Binge drinking night” that you couldn’t make it a course requirement in modern-day US, alas. (There’s possibly also more ideal drugs than alcohol for these purposes—at a minimum, given individual reactions and tolerances vary, using a variety of pharmaceuticals would probably reduce noise some)
I’m not sure how well this would carry over to mental stuff, but I know that some martial arts schools and many police and military organizations use physical exercise to create fatigue and/or adrenaline highs during training.
This suggests a very easy way of inducing conditions appropriate to a more thorough testing of rationality. Any student who insists on leaving (which I think you’d be ethically obliged to allow for) would receive a failing grade. See how well the rest manage to be rational despite the circumstances.
This one is probably also eminently doable, especially in a casual setting. I’m sure enough people would object to “Binge drinking night” that you couldn’t make it a course requirement in modern-day US, alas. (There’s possibly also more ideal drugs than alcohol for these purposes—at a minimum, given individual reactions and tolerances vary, using a variety of pharmaceuticals would probably reduce noise some)
I’m not sure how well this would carry over to mental stuff, but I know that some martial arts schools and many police and military organizations use physical exercise to create fatigue and/or adrenaline highs during training.