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Lots 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 automatic
by pgsimp 5y ago
Lots 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 5y 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 5y agoYou bring forth one expert to support your claim. I am merely pointing out that there are other experts with differing opinions.