03711nam a22005055i 4500 978-3-031-49292-1 DE-He213 20251030112845.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240809s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031492921 978-3-031-49292-1 10.1007/978-3-031-49292-1 doi HM1001-1281 JMH bicssc PSY031000 bisacsh JMH thema Le Texier, Thibault. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 82103 Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment [electronic resource] : History of a Lie / by Thibault Le Texier. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XIV, 196 p. 4 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Introduction -- 1. Posterity -- 2. Pre-written Conclusions -- 3. Toyon Hall -- 4. Manipulations -- 5. The Situation -- 6. Variations on a Surrealist Situation -- 7. A Surrealist Situation – Continued -- 8. More Fiction than Science -- 9. Conclusion: Nothing to Save but the Truth -- Acknowledgments -- Notes. In 1971, psychologist Philip Zimbardo ran the now famous Stanford prison experiment to show that prison could make normal people behave in pathological ways. Based on the first thorough investigation in the archives of the experiment and on interviews with about half of its participants, this book shows that the Stanford prison experiment is far from being scientific. In particular, the guards knew what results were expected from them, they were trained and supervised by the experimenters, and they were following a schedule and a set of rules written by the experimenters. The experimenters deceived the guards and made them believe they were not subjects. They also borrowed many elements from a previous student experiment without disclosing this information in their reports. The prisoners were not allowed to leave the experiment at will, and they were conditioned by the experimenters. The mock prison situation was unrealistic. Most participants did not forget they were participating in an experiment, and many responded to demand characteristics. The data was not collected properly. And the conclusions were pre-written according to non-academic aims. This book goes beyond the experiment to provide ample background and context, in order to understand how the experiment was planned, financed, recorded, and divulged in the press and within the academic. It discusses also the role played by Philip Zimbardo in the trial of one of the guards of Abu Ghraib, as well as the impact of mass media on science, the debates between personal psychology and social psychology, and the specific nature of cold war social science. Social psychology. 59087 Psychology, Experimental. 82104 Science History. 65232 Social Psychology. 59087 Experimental Psychology. 82105 History of Science. 66101 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031492914 Printed edition: 9783031492938 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49292-1 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 62339 62339