““Hot Sauce54: Demonstrating that psychologists have a wonderful sense of humor, this paradigm consists in measuring how much hot chili sauce the participant pours into the confederate's drink. In the original study, the point of the experiment is that the victim of the hot sauce poisoning had somehow provoked or mocked the participant, and the latter is then informed that the annoying man doesn't like spicy food. I guess you could create all sort of variations from this basic template, like making your participant play an offensive and gory video game for twenty minutes, and then see if he tries to kill the other guy with a chilly overdose.””
