:05:02
- Where ?
:05:12
I see it.
:05:17
"Research subjects.
Nine hundred a week."
:05:21
Here's how they're organized. The groups
have very different personalities.
:05:25
Scored all over the Kiersey Temperament
Sorter, just like you asked for,
:05:29
and they all score very high
on the insomnia charts.
:05:32
Oh, what a beautiful profile.
:05:34
A classic dependent
personality disorder.
:05:37
However, we were looking
for "suggestible."
:05:41
Her mother died
two months ago.
:05:43
She really wants to do this.
:05:45
And what are your feelings,
Mary ?
:05:48
Tell me what
your intuitions say.
:05:51
I put my favorites
on top.
:05:53
Mm-hmm.
What else have we got here ?
:05:56
"Low self-esteem,
high narcissism,
:06:01
chronic feeling of emptiness,
:06:03
identity disturbance."
:06:05
Good, good. Very good.
:06:07
Is this where we're going ?
:06:09
That's Hill House.
That's perfect, isn't it ?
:06:12
- The Hill House Project--
- Is absolutely essential
to my research, Malcom.
:06:16
No, just listen.
I grant you,
:06:18
fear and performance
is a big, sexy idea.
:06:22
- But as chairman
of this department, I cannot--
- I know you clinical guys...
:06:26
don't like to ask these questions,
but think about it.
:06:29
What is fear, anyway ? It's a series of
automatic responses to a given stimulus,
:06:33
characterized by increased
heart rate, respiratory activity
and adrenaline function.
:06:36
The only problem with fear
is that it has largely become
inappropriate and nonadaptive.
:06:41
Do sweaty palms
help to talk to your boss ?
:06:44
Does a racing pulse help
some kid's score on an SAT ?
:06:48
And yet we carry with us
these primordial fear responses...
:06:51
that do the opposite of what
they were intended to do.
:06:53
- So why is that ?
- David, David, no one is saying...
:06:55
that these aren't
provocative questions.
:06:57
But you can't conduct this research
ethically or responsibly.