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Ah yes, the Stanford Prison Experiment, which makes serious psychologists sigh and roll there eyes. Putting aside ethical considerations, it was so confounded a
by madhadron 8y ago
Ah yes, the Stanford Prison Experiment, which makes serious psychologists sigh and roll there eyes. Putting aside ethical considerations, it was so confounded as to be completely useless.
- twblalock 8y agoIt's taken seriously enough to be taught in every university survey course on psychology and sociology, and that wouldn't still be happening if the "serious" people in those disciplines wanted to stop.
- philwelch 8y agoI've typically only seen it taught as a cautionary tale, both about research ethics and about experiment design.
- euyyn 8y agoYeah, the reason I was taught it was in an experiment design class, because it caused psychological harm to the subjects (not the prisoners) without their consent. Thus being an exemplary case of an ethical failure.
- duxup 8y agoI was taught it.... in a way to say "this is not how to research things and if you heard about this you should probabbly rethink anything you think about it".
- rusk 8y ago> "this is not how to research things Yes, this is how it was taught to me also. An example of "how not to do it" and something that would never pass the ethical review board in modern academia.
- JdeBP 8y agoWhilst that may indeed be what you were taught, Jared M. Bartels paints a rather different picture of what introductory textbooks have been found to say on this subject. * http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1475725714568007 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1475725714568007
- rusk 8y agoYou're right actually. I recall the textbooks did present the study in a different light to what we were taught in class. Interestingly the discussion in these textbooks never went into much detail, usually just providing a brief overview of it and noting that it was "important". As a more mature reader I might read between the lines there and wonder.
- iandanforth 8y agoApparently these serious psychologists were busy in 2002 when he was elected president of the APA.
- roywiggins 8y agoThe APA in particular has its own ethical stain from that time frame. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/report-says-american-psychological-association-collaborated-on-torture-justification.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/report-says-america...