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Guinea pig

By Troy - 03/04/2009 18:40 - United States

Today, I filled out a political survey for a psychology experiment. A really cute girl was doing it, too. We hit it off and flirted through the surveys, and I asked her out when it was done. Then I found out it was really an attraction experiment and she was in on it. She was acting. FML

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By Anonymous - 07/12/2009 21:05 - Canada

Today, I signed up for a psych experiment. I was a damsel in distress on the side of the highway, but no one stopped. Back at the lab, another participant said a half-dozen people helped her. The professor was testing how attractiveness affects altruism. I was the unattractive subject. FML

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Gaslighting 101

By Anon - 25/09/2023 20:00 - United States

Today, I volunteered to be a "mentally stable" person in a psychology experiment at my university. Little did I know, they'd paired me with a psychology grad student who asked me a series of increasingly bizarre and personal questions about my life. I ended up questioning my own sanity. FML

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She's lost control again

By wellgreat - 14/04/2009 05:11 - United States

Today, I was in the Student Union when a man a came up to me and asked if I wanted to be in a study to see how men acted differently when working with attractive women. Flattered and taken aback, I agreed. He then told me I would be part of the control group to see how they act around plain looking women. FML

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Convoluted storyline

By Krash The Koopa - 02/12/2020 11:58 - United States - Litchfield Park

Today, I discovered that the actress who played a girl I have a crush on faked her résumé. Not only that, but she wasn’t even interested in acting, she just wanted a job. And boom, she also voted for Trump. And I STILL have a crush on her character. FML

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Silver linings

By 10 years, 0 dates - 28/11/2020 11:03

Today, I wanted to ask out this cute girl I used to work with. Before I could, she said she likes my only friend there, and asked if could I set them up. Trying to be nice guy and good friend, I did. Then she made her complete lack of interest in me obvious. But hey, at least the gay guy she hung out with thought I was cute. FML

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By NotCuteEnough - 24/08/2009 21:27 - United States

Today, I was flirting with this guy that had been forced to be my lab partner for class. He was really funny and attractive, too. In the middle of our conversation he said "You're so cute! You remind me of my boyfriend!" FML

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By Dave - 10/09/2009 13:37 - United States

Today, my girlfriend of 3 years told me that I was part of an experiment for her Sociology doctorate. I also learned that the notebooks she's been writing in for the past three years aren't for her "doctorate in literature" as she had told me, they were notes on my behavior for the past 3 years. FML

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By BetterThanFake - 13/01/2010 00:03 - United States

Today, I made a fake MySpace so that I could flirt with my boyfriend and see what he would do. He ended up dumping me for the fake MySpace girl. FML

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In the zone

By Anonymous - 12/09/2019 20:05

Today, I was flirting with a girl I like when she confessed she was into another guy. I then proceeded to wingman for that guy, telling her to take her shot with him before the chance went away. Effectively sticking myself into the friendzone. FML

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By heartbroken - 30/03/2011 00:15 - United States

Today, I managed to convince the girl of my dreams to stop being so shy, and put herself out there to get her crush to make a move. It worked. And yet as it turns out, I'm not her crush after all. FML

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Vball6 19

Thursday 24 November 2011 7:09

It was a psychology experiment.. Yes, yes you do..

wut_fml 0

Friday 3 April 2009 23:21

#5 - you need to take a psych class or two. There are plenty of experiments done on humans influencing their emotions all the time. OP - don't feel bad. Experiments like this are done all the time. It happens to a lot of guys.

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may_cause_fail 0

Friday 3 April 2009 23:25

Hey, you're helping them out! There's nothing wrong with that. :]

hoch449 0

Friday 3 April 2009 23:27

I would have horked on her for that. She can put that in her results. "Today I conducted a human emotions experiment. I led this guy on, he asked me out. I told him this was an act and he horked in my eye."

Somefruits 24

Sunday 16 February 2014 4:55

I hope you realize she was probably just being paid to act in someone else's experiment. Experiments like this need to be approved by ethics committees.

adelaide_evening 0

Friday 3 April 2009 23:28

Look on the bright side: at least you weren't in the control group with the ugly girl.

BigLord 0

Friday 3 April 2009 23:30

Wow. Do these things still happen? o_o man if this happened to me I would rage so hard.

dklusTC 0

Friday 3 April 2009 23:32

awwwww

LyuboLove 0

Friday 3 April 2009 23:37

hahaha #13 very true we'll see an fml about that later, i'm sure

adelaide_evening 0

Friday 3 April 2009 23:37

Actually, I don't think these things do happen anymore. I call this a fake. You aren't allowed to mess with a person's emotions during an experiment, and you have to tell them what the experiment is about beforehand. At the very least they would have had to of told him that the experiment was over attraction, not politics.

KingHumanity 0

Saturday 10 October 2009 16:17

Fail. You will never get a result anywhere close to the real thing if you tell your subjects what you are up to. Studies like this are done all the time, grow up, stop being a china doll. FYL OP, I understand the humiliation.

Silhouette_fml 0

Friday 3 April 2009 23:38

It's not all that bad. Just remember, this probably happened to a ton of guys.

medfly 2

Friday 3 April 2009 23:41

I think a lot of those are done today. what is up with the replies? You can't have useful results out of a psychology experiment if you tell all the details to the participants.

dramatay 0

Friday 3 April 2009 23:46

17 that makes no sense, if they told him what the experiment was it would be pointless. he willingly signed up for a psychology experiment of course it was going to involve some manipulation.