Psychology / Unit 11 Psych 1197 short lesson, about 20 seconds
How the Prison Study Is Now Read
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The idea
The Stanford prison study is now taught as a demonstration of demand characteristics as much as of the power of assigned roles.
In practice
Guards who believed they were assisting the experimenters acted on what they took the experimenters to want.
Where people slip
Zimbardo and Haney dispute this reading in print. Both accounts are public, and this course takes neither as settled.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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