Demonstrating the Power of Social Situations via a Simulated Prison ...
Jun 8, 2004 · In 1971, a team of psychologists designed and executed an unusual experiment that used a mock prison setting, with college students role-playing prisoners and guards to test the power of …
Jun 4, 2019 · New revelations from a detailed analysis of the Stanford prison experiment (SPE) archives challenge (a) the study’s scientific validity and Philip Zimbardo’s creative-evil, situationist narrative for …
Philip Zimbardo on heroism, shyness and the Stanford Prison Experiment
Philip 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 …
What makes good people do bad things?
Prison abuses The same social psychological processes--deindividualization, anonymity of place, dehumanization, role-playing and social modeling, moral disengagement and group conformity--that …
Zimbardo re-examines his landmark Stanford prison study
Dr. Zimbardo talks about his Heroic Imagination Project, what he would change about the Stanford Prison Experiment and who he’d like to see play him in the upcoming feature film on the historic study.
Craig Haney advocates for criminal justice reform
Apr 19, 2021 · Craig Haney, PhD, has researched solitary confinement extensively as part of the larger project of his career, which is using psychology to effect meaningful, humane reform of the criminal …
Psychologists add caveat to ‘blind conformity’ research
Haslam and Reicher conducted a version of the Stanford Prison Experiment televised by the British Broadcasting Service in 2002, showing that participants didn't automatically conform to their …
How Can the Science of Human Behavior Help Us Understand Abu …
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.
Film criticized as irresponsible
Mar 1, 2002 · A German movie claiming ties to the Stanford Prison Experiment spurs controversy over when reality ends and fiction begins.
Social psychology on the silver screen
A movie on the Stanford Prison Experiment won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at its debut at the Sundance Film Festival.