Statue Trick | Brain Games

take a very close look at this statue
pay attention and don’t look away did
you just jump back did your muscles
tense if so that’s because your brain
comes equipped with a primal
fight-or-flight response to danger and
it’s rare that your brain can override
it even at times when danger isn’t
really present like in this unique
experiment we’ve designed to test
fight-or-flight responses we brought in
a team of makeup artists to transform
our actor into an inanimate statue
outside Caesars Palace Las Vegas and
then we set up cameras to see what
happens when our statue suddenly comes
to life this should make a nice souvenir
vacation picture but watch out for the
photo bomb they weren’t the only ones to
react watch what happens to this curious
cat these ladies pick the wrong bench to
take a break from shopping notice how
most people are responding with the
flight part of fight-or-flight
person that’s a person jumped back and
frightened the thing is they’re not
actually making a decision to flee or
fight it happens instinctively so what
do you think will happen when we scare
someone who’s instinct is to fight
rather than flee is someone about to
knock our statues block off