• @NateNate60@lemmy.world
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    2023 days ago

    I remember some popular YouTuber ran an experiment trying to re-create the conclusions that Zimbardo had come to. The results contradicted his conclusions and they confronted him. He continued to defend his experiment. He seemed like a rather stubborn man.

    • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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      923 days ago

      Humm, so we have two similar experiments with different outcomes?

      That just seem to indicate that we don’t have enough data.

      • @NateNate60@lemmy.world
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        2423 days ago

        I don’t think anyone has been able to recreate his experiment. He’s accused of manipulating it to fit his narrative. He denies these accusations, of course.

        • Todd Bonzalez
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          322 days ago

          One of the biggest reasons I don’t trust that experiment is just knowing that the USA has a prison industrial complex, and doesn’t run prisons particularly well, which does lead to abuse, but pretty much never the kinds of situations the experiment reported.

          You would expect this experiment to be reaffirmed at least occasionally in the real world, outside of extreme cases like Abu Ghraib.

    • @NateNate60@lemmy.world
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      1023 days ago

      Did he do anything besides the Stanford Prison Experiment that I just don’t know of? Because if that’s all, I’d be more inclined to say that he’s just stubbornly wrong rather than evil. But maybe you know something I don’t

      • @Famko@lemmy.world
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        222 days ago

        Vsauce’s “Mindbreak” series on YouTube did an episode on the Stanford Prison experiment and Zimbardo’s later work in life if you want to check it out.

      • BigFig
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        3023 days ago

        Well the experiment followed zero ethical guidelines, so in a way a type of evil

  • @yesman@lemmy.world
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    722 days ago

    Zimbardo is part of a generation of psychology that struggled with why modern European people did a Shoah. Or rather a generation that sought to confirm through experiment that the Germans were alright and it was really all Hitler’s fault. Or at least a small number of evil Germans who caused the whole mess.

    It’s auspicious to bring this up now because just watching the news these days makes a fool of Zimbardo.