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Lifespan of a Lie: Why Can’t We Escape the Stanford Prison Experiment? (2018)
- laurex 7y agoThough Zimbardo ended up being seen as fraudulent, something about this experiment resonated, and it might have something to do with the many-times replicated experiments of Stanly Milgrim, who showed that when people are directed to do unethical or inhuman things by an authority figure, they often comply. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment The author makes the point that people may want to believe in the idea of the Stanford Prison Experiment because it absolves humans of individual accountability, and in fact, it might be worth considering if that assumption really is entirely unfounded.