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Can good people really turn bad? Re-visiting the Stanford Prison Experiment
10 May 2007
But what if the participants in the Stanford Prison Experiment weren’t “good people”? What if the idea of participating in a prison experiment, or working at an interrogation facility, appeals to a certain type of character?
- Legal, criminological and forensic
- Personality and self
- Social and behavioural
Criticisms of the Stanford Prison Experiment left out of psychology textbooks
23 July 2014
Leading US textbooks used in introductory psychology courses barely mention critiques.
- Education
Challenging the conclusions drawn from Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment
03 October 2007
The most important studies are those which take influential studies that appear to support such ideas and turn them on their heads.
- BPS updates
- Mental health
- Qualitative Methods
- Quantitative Methods
Dealing with toxic behaviour
10 September 2018
Two letters from our October edition on the Stanford Prison Experiment controversy.
- Social and behavioural
What the textbooks don’t tell you – one of psychology’s most famous experiments was seriously flawed
23 July 2014
The Stanford Prison Experiment is used as an example for psychology students to explain modern day atrocities. But are texts about the experiment accurate?
- Methods and statistics
- Social and behavioural
Debate about ideas, not about personalities
28 August 2018
Professors Alex Haslam and Stephen Reicher release a joint statement with the Stanford Prison Experiment researchers Craig Haney and Philip Zimbardo.
- Ethics and morality
- Social and behavioural
The abuse lurking in our institutions
09 August 2016
Alison Liebling, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Cambridge, reviews 'The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Film' by Kyle Patrick Alvarez (2015).
- Ethics and morality
- Legal, criminological and forensic
- Research Ethics
- Social and behavioural
Time to change the story
25 June 2018
New evidence from the Zimbardo archives challenges everything you have taught (or been taught) about the Stanford Prison Experiment, argue Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam and Jay Van Bavel.
- Ethics and morality
- Social and behavioural
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Teaching scientific thinking using recent archival revelations about the Stanford Prison Experiment
Series: Psychology Teaching Review Volume: 25 Issue: 2
Date of Publication: 01-01-2019
Author(s): Richard A. Griggs, Jared M. Bartels
View Teaching scientific thinking using recent archival revelations about the Stanford Prison ExperimentHow has the Stanford Prison Experiment contributed to Social Psychology?
Series: Psych-Talk Volume: 1 Issue: 69
Date of Publication: 01-05-2011
Author(s): Christina Loucas
View How has the Stanford Prison Experiment contributed to Social Psychology?Debating the psychology of tyranny: Fundamental issues of theory, perspective and science
12-01-2011
- S. Alexander Haslam
- Stephen Reicher
Strategies for linking individual psychology and social structure: Interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary social psychology
01-09-1986
- Marylee C. Taylor
- Michael P. Johnson
Power in group contexts: The influence of group status on promotion and prevention decision making
23-09-2011
- Daan Scheepers
- Naomi Ellemers
- Kai Sassenberg
Identity, influence, and change: Rediscovering John Turner's vision for social psychology
05-03-2012
- S. Alexander Haslam
- Stephen D. Reicher
- Katherine J. Reynolds
Rethinking the psychology of tyranny: The BBC prison study
12-01-2011
- Stephen Reicher
- S. Alexander Haslam