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Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the Stanford Prison Experiment, seems to think so. He has written a couple of books on the subject of deteriorating dev
by totalZero 6y ago
Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the Stanford Prison Experiment, seems to think so. He has written a couple of books on the subject of deteriorating development of young men, and has suggested a correlation to the advent of high-speed internet.
Not sure if he's right, but it's certainly a reasonable theory.
He also did a TED talk briefly touching on the subject.
https://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_the_demise_of_guys https://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_the_demise_of_guys
- pgsimp 6y agoYou can always find people believing all sorts of things.
- totalZero 6y agoMost of them aren't experts in sociobehavioral psychology who write books on this particular subject.
- pgsimp 6y agoLots of people also write books. And the Stanford Prison experiment has received a huge amount of criticism by now, afaik. Also being famous does not automatically make you an expert. Edit: googled citation for criticism of the SPE https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31380664/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31380664/
- totalZero 6y agoWhether you think the experiment itself was good or bad (Zimbardo recognized its failures and ended it early), the lessons it taught were invaluable and that's why they brought him in as an expert witness for the Abu Ghraib trial. Your suggestion that "lots of people write books" is a silly pooh-poohing in that context, especially considering that Zimbardo was already a Stanford professor by that time in 1971, 50 years ago.
- pgsimp 6y agoYou bring forth one expert to support your claim. I am merely pointing out that there are other experts with differing opinions.
- sidlls 6y agoAn expert in psychology is basically a modern haruspex.