THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT: THE FAMOUS STUDY THAT WAS PARTLY FAKE
Episode 10 | History's Mysteries — Science & Deception
In this Mystery episode we focus on the Stanford Prison Experiment — the 1971 study that showed ordinary people placed in roles of authority would spontaneously become cruel, was taught in psychology courses around the world for fifty years, and then in 2018 evidence emerged that the guards had been coached to be cruel and the most abusive guard said he was playing a character he invented.
This episode covers the original experiment and what happened, the institutional mechanisms that allowed a methodologically flawed study to stand…
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