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Disturbing fact: The Stanford prison experiment, run by Philip Zimbardo, wasn't reproducible but that didn't stop Zimbardo from using it to promote his ideolog
by dlcarrier 1y ago
Disturbing fact: The Stanford prison experiment, run by Philip Zimbardo, wasn't reproducible but that didn't stop Zimbardo from using it to promote his ideologies about the impossibility of rehabilitating criminals, or from becoming the president of the American Psychological Association.
The APA has a really good style guide, but I don't trust them for actual psychology.
- runarberg 1y agoYes, the APA certainly has a lot to answer for in their history. The Guantanamo Prison torture scandal is still fresh in my memory. https://www.democracynow.org/2007/8/20/apa_members_hold_fiery_town_hall https://www.democracynow.org/2007/8/20/apa_members_hold_fier...
- chatmasta 1y agoHas anyone tried to reproduce it? Good luck convincing an ethics review board to let you try that again. Meanwhile, it’s been reproduced “in vitro” in numerous episodes of atrocity, e.g. Abu Ghraib…
- dlcarrier 1y agoA reality TV show tried, because they have more practical ethics requirements than academic institutions, and were able to run the study as long as everyone agreed to be there and there was no sign of abuse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Experiment Also, how do you italicize text in your comment?
- chatmasta 1y ago> Also, how do you italicize text in your comment? HN will italicize any string between a pair of asterisks. [0] > practical ethics requirements Practical ethics requirements :) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc