But in reality, I found in researching for my book “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes” that the experiment was a sadistic exhibition of power and authority – levers controlled by Elliott.

But in reality, I found in researching for my book “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes” that the experiment was a sadistic exhibition of power and authority — levers controlled by Elliott.

Before the end of the day, the brown-eyed students had become arrogant and demanding, Elliott said. Meanwhile, the blue-eyed students became frustrated and unable to perform simple exercises.

You may not know Jane Elliott by name, but you likely have heard of the blue eyes/brown eyes experiment, which has been performed on hundreds of thousands of children and adults across the United ...

Jane Elliott talks about race and racism at Cal State San Bernardino Thursday. Elliott developed a classroom experiment in 1968 for her all-white class of third graders to teach them about ...

Blue-eyed children were given special privileges, while brown-eyed children had to sit in the back of the classroom and couldn’t use the same drinking fountain as blue-eyed classmates.

Elliott herself went on to conduct the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise at training for large corporations, at prisons, and in colleges across the country, though she says she rarely does the ...