Psychology Today Blog on Cutthroat

Is the Challenge just one large psychology experiment? That is reality TV is suppose. Volatile personalities in volatile environments, all for viewer satisfaction.

Here's a blog post about about Cutthroat on the Psychology Today site. Not necessarily a great article, but I thought it was interesting that the show is making its rounds all around.

Excerpt:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

What is interesting about the show is that each week two of the three teams are confronted with a fairly intense social and moral quandary: They have to send two teammates (one male, one female) into the cold, harsh unknown of a do-or-die battle. With threat of public humiliation, lost money and fame and a sense rejection looming large, each person is desperately scrambling to avoid being voted in. There are zero guidelines and few rules (explicitly laid down by the show or implicated communicated by tradition) to follow, leaving each group to develop its own culture and process of choosing.

Suffice it to say, each team’s response varies more in form then it does in dysfunction.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Full article:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/reel-therapy/201011/mtvs-cutthroat-troubled-teams