81 - The Stanford Prison Experiment

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Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 92 minutes

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The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most famous psychological studies ever conducted. In 1971, newly tenured psychology professor Richard Zimbardo turned the basement of the Stanford University psychology department into a fake prison where young male volunteers were divided into the roles of Prisoner and Guard . The study was meant to last two weeks. But the brutality of the Guards and the suffering of the Prisoners was so intense that it had to be terminated after only six days. Find out just crazy things got, and what we learned about human nature from this incredible experiment, today, on Timesuck! Timesuck is brought to you by My West Coast Buds, the podcast! Take an inside look at cannabis, coffee, comedy, and spirits. Timesuck is brought to you today by by the socially conscious and fantastic on-line mattress store LEESA! Go to www.leesa.com/timesuckto get $125 off AND a free pillow!! Timesuck is also brought to you by American Addiction Centers. AAC is revolutionizing the addiction treatment industry with holistic, evidence-based treatment practices. Need help? Call American Addiction Centers at 888-489-5018 - available 24/7. Your life is worth more than your addiction. Don't wait until it's too late! Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard"? Go here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits. And, thank you for supporting the show by doing your Amazon shopping after clicking on my Amazon link at www.timesuckpodcast.com

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0:00.0	The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the very few subjects we've tackled that I've
0:03.8	actually studied a bit before.
0:05.5	I remember learning about it during an experimental psychology class at Gonzaga University back
0:09.9	around 1998.
0:10.9	It was probably wearing some kind of smashing pumpkins or radio head t-shirt back then.
0:15.7	Definitely was rocking a few earrings each year.
0:18.1	My hair may or may not have been bleached.
0:21.0	Anyway, I remember my professor explaining that the study shed light on a question that
0:25.2	I had been thinking about in one of my other classes, a history class on the Holocaust.
0:29.9	How could they do it?
0:30.9	How could Germans do to the Jewish people, to the Romani, to homosexuals, to political
0:36.0	objectives, what they did?
0:38.2	How could they treat them so savagely, kill innocent people that way?
0:42.2	Well, in addition to a lot of other factors, part of their ability to dehumanize their
0:46.3	prisoners may have been the psychology of conforming to the expectation to their role of the
0:51.7	captor.
0:52.7	Turns out, when you give someone the ability to punish others, when you put someone in
0:55.6	charge of others and give them the ability to reward or punish others, they tend to behave
1:00.5	in some very interesting ways and often in some not-so-great ways.
1:04.3	And we know a lot of this now because of the study we're talking about today.
1:08.2	Philip Sombardo and the others who conducted this now-famous experiment in 1971 found
1:13.0	that people behaved in all together, startling ways, ways that are no longer as surprising,
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