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Bookmark or Share- Demonstrating the Power of Social Situations via a Simulated Prison ...The research, known as the Stanford Prison Experiment, has become a classic demonstration of situational power to influence individual attitudes, values and behavior. So extreme, swift and unexpected were the transformations of character in many of the participants that this study -- planned to last two-weeks -- had to be terminated by the ...
- Social psychology on the silver screenThat film details the work of now-deceased social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who attended James Monroe High School with Zimbardo in New York City. "Experimenter" stars Peter Sarsgaard as Stanley Milgram and Winona Ryder as Milgram's wife, Sasha. "The Stanford Prison Experiment" is slated to appear in theaters later this year.
- How Can the Science of Human Behavior Help Us Understand Abu Ghraib?The Stanford prison experiment taught us important lessons about the potential for prisoner abuse, even at the hands of ordinary and stable guards. It demonstrated, once again, the power of the situation. Yet, the experiment also showed that some of the guards were more abusive than others. Chalk one up for personality and individual differences.
- Philip Zimbardo on heroism, shyness and the Stanford Prison ExperimentPhilip Zimbardo is a psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is also president of the Heroic Imagination Project, which teaches people how to overcome the natural human tendency to watch and wait in moments of crisis. Zimbardo is perhaps best known for his 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, which demonstrated the power of ...
- Craig Haney advocates for criminal justice reformStanford Prison Experiment While at Stanford, in 1971, Haney studied a death penalty case in New Jersey involving a man whose mother contended that her son's confession had been psychologically coerced. Haney was given access to records and interviewed lawyers who'd been involved, and he visited the convicted man at the New Jersey state prison ...
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