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The Study
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Background
The Holocaust and the nature of evil
Monsters or ordinary people?
Classic studies in social psychology
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Resisting tyranny
Aims of the study
Setting up
Working with the BBC
Selecting participants
Dividing into prisoners and guards
The prison
Prison conditions
Recording events
Ethical principles
Ethical safeguards
Early days
Arrival and processing
Prisoners' complaints
Working for promotion
Guards' doubts
Let them eat sausages
Conflict
The promotion
Us and them
Face-off
Guards' dismay
Prisoners' elation
Order
A new prisoner arrives
A new vision
Losing the keys
A struggle for leadership
Order re-established
Rebellion
Prisoners rewrite the rules
Guards stressed out
Breakout
The collapse of the Guards' regime
Tyranny
Creating a commune
Dissent
A crisis for the commune
The lure of tyranny
The end
Conclusions
Roles and identities
Identity, organization and power
Groups and well-being
The psychology of tyranny
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Watching The Experiment
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Predicting obedience
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Authoritarianism
Depression
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Reality and artifice
Was it a real prison?
What was the effect of TV?
Did our interventions affect the results?
Decisions and outcomes
Why study only men?
Why end the study when we did?
Did we follow up the participants?
Science and society
Was it science?
Does the study tell us anything about the wider world?
Why did our findings differ from Zimbardo's?
How has Zimbardo responded to our work?
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Commentaries on the study
On Milgram's 'obedience' research
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On the SPE
On the BPS: Findings and conclusions
On the BPS: Relevance for psychology and society
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Plan of the prison
The prison's main atrium from an overhead camera