video.google.com — 24 college student volunteers, paid $15 a day, are divided by a flip of the coin into prisoners and guards. In just a few days, the 'prisoners' stop thinking of themselves as people but instead as numbers, and the 'guards' stop treating the prisoners as human. Sci-Fi movie? Nope, a real psychology experiment you have to read to believe.
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canuckmakemSep 16, 2006
AMAZING MOVIE!!! I watched it with my wife a while back and it blew us away....... find it and watch it.
vpurpmalkvSep 16, 2006
Wow. I'm not young. I'm in my 30's. I hadn't heard of the Russian Shuttle or this experiment. So I'm glad they were put on Digg. Sometimes news from yesteryear is still useful when making decisions about the future.
Closed AccountSep 16, 2006
this is old if ure a psychology nerd. lol
acetracerSep 16, 2006
Reminds me of a German movie I saw a couple years ago, Das Experiment.
techmonkey4uSep 16, 2006
Yeah I saw the subtitled version (found it at Blockbuster). It was really good.
bbeneSep 16, 2006
Cool, I just read about this for my sociology class the other day.
charlesdarwinSep 16, 2006
Psychology is a pseudoscience you fscking noobs!
recalledSep 26, 2006
Just because the experiment is referenced countless times does not mean that it was not a failure (at what it was intended). To think otherwise is stupid.Hitler and his insane followers tried to make a utopian society (in their perspective). They failed at that, but the result showed the world that evil lies in many hearts, even those that might otherwise seem innocuous. So, some good came of that horrific chain of events, and we can learn from it, and it can be referenced countless times in the future.The actions of the experiment organizers is criminal. Their failures to protect the basic rights of the test subjects (at least the prisoner subjects) is a testament to the arrogance of university staff (and yes, I know this was done in 1971). To think that a loosely parallel system of a minimal number of untrained subjects would reflect true dynamics of the overall (real) world is overly simplistic and juvenile.I suspect that average people of average intelligence would expect a similar thing to happen even if this poorly-planned and poorly-run experiment had never happened.Why did so many people refuse to intervene when the exercise escalated to an inhumane level? Because people are stupid and weak-willed. Why did the so-called scientific leader of the experiment fail to control himself and the experiment? I personally submit my previous statement. Shunning criminal responsibility “in the name of science” might be stretched to fit Mengele, also.Perhaps the experiment was cancelled not because the leader wanted to, but because his girlfriend wanted him to. I am curious to know what one "scientist" would find appealing and attractive in a "scientist" of this type, much less marry them, as this incident clearly exhibits self-control and realization problems in one of them.Anyone that is concerned about the “failure” of modern correctional facilities can garner my vote that those concerned citizens keep the convicted felons in their homes and “rehabilitate” them there.
stelman1Jan 11, 2009
The stanford prison experiment is one of the most shocking experiments ever done in the history of psychology. It tells us a lot about who we really are.