The Stanford Prison Experiment - A forgotten but Important Study

[AuntPatsy]

http://news.stanford.edu/pr/97/970108prisonexp.html


Though the experiment was stopped short of its desired completion, the effects of the experiment and it's reality counterpart continue to thrive and expand in today's society...

My thoughts, we continue to ignore history once again which allows it to repeat over and over proving how reckless humanity truly is when it comes to self preservation being the objective..

The Movie Trailer

http://www.firstshowing.net/2015/watch-first-full-trailer-for-the-stanford-prison-experiment-movie/

[AngryAmish]

1. Forgotten? I have heard about this weekly my entire adult life.

[AuntPatsy]

2. So not forgotten by you, still forgotten and or ignored by far too many,

[csziggy]

3. The Milgram Shock Experiment is another study that is not remembered

Often enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

[AuntPatsy]

4. Never heard of that one, interesting that they got the similar results on other societies

Proves humans are not as complicated as we believe we are at times....


I feel like we should have learned how to fight against these control tactics early on and perhaps fight against our own basic instincts when they are proven a threat towards others, we are after all not that different than the animal kingdom and we see nothing wrong with training them to fight there basic instincts of survival regardless of consequences, which obviously we all possess....

[csziggy]

5. I'm afraid that these base instincts are too useful to the powers that be

To allow them to be trained out of humanity. Look at how useful the ability to torture has been to the US military and how useful the lack of empathy towards prisoners and crowds is to police departments across the world.

We complain about how police treat average people during demonstrations - but that is built into the human psyche. It might be possible to train that out of our police but the people in charge don't consider it necessary or desirable, especially in a period trending towards fascism.

Maybe if we could have a hundred years of peace with an enlightened government that would support a good education system and universal mental health treatment our culture could eliminate these tendencies. But with the psychotics and fascists who seem to gravitate to the top I doubt our culture will ever manage this.

[AuntPatsy]

6. Excellent response and like you I have the same doubts....