wired.com — Psychologist Philip Zimbardo will speak Thursday afternoon at the TED conference about parallels between his infamous 1971 "prison experiment" at Stanford and prisoner abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq more than 30 years later. Wired.com has an exclusive video from Zimbardo's talk, featuring Abu Ghraib photos he says are previously unseen.
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sholtFeb 28, 2008
"With this sort of mind-set, when you are are pressed "to do evil" you'll be far more likely to resist."The whole point of his theory is that this assumption isn't true.Just because someone is a good person in all respects of his daily life, big and small, does not mean that, given the right (or wrong, as the case may be) circumstances, he will refuse making poor/unethical decisions in that isolated case. Yes, he is still fully culpable for his actions, regardless of the circumstances; but those circumstances help explain why an otherwise good person who has always been "part of the solution," as you say, becomes "part of the problem," in that particular environment.
projectgsxFeb 28, 2008
We know why people turn evil:Violent video games.Amirite?
civictvFeb 28, 2008
RTFA
haohmaruFeb 29, 2008
That's what he's saying, and it's I agree that even the best of can do horrible thing, but my point is that a person who works at being altruistic as opposed to one who is when it's convenient (which is not altruism, they just think it is) is far less likely to do so.
Closed AccountMar 3, 2008
If you dont like this country then you can get out. Go to iran, where they would kill you for living an "alternative" lifestyle.
Closed AccountMar 3, 2008
youre an assh**e
earl2May 25, 2008
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