Episode 297: The Stanford Prison Experiment

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🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In 1971, Philip Zimbardo recruited participants to take on the roles of “prisoners” and “guards” to investigate the psychological effects of perceived power; Zimbardo's primary reason for conducting the experiment was to focus on the power of roles, rules, symbols, group identity and situational validation of behavior that generally would repulse ordinary individuals. But the experiment had to be terminated over a week earlier than expected due to how the participants began to act. Today, the findings of Zimbardo are debated, as is the methodology and ethical considerations of the actual experiment. Click here to join our Patreon. Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group. To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/

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0:00.0	What's up you guys? I'm Haley and I'm Andrea and this is Inhuman a true crime podcast Oh, Welcome back everybody. Hope you are having a good day whenever you are
0:28.0	having a good day whenever you are listening to this and today's episode is going to kind of piggyback off of my last
0:36.6	episode which if you have not listened to episode 295, then go listen to that first.
0:49.0	Because I'm gonna ruin it right now.
0:52.0	So this is your warning.
0:53.8	Go listen to episode 295 if you haven't yet.
0:57.7	And now I'm going to ruin it.
0:59.5	So I am sorry again for playing an April Fool's prank and pretending that the Russian sleep experiment was real.
1:07.0	The comment. I think a lot of people...
1:09.0	Oh my God, we got the funniest comments. I was like, clearly y'all didn't listen.
1:16.7	Because I was like, okay, we know, like it's not real,
1:20.4	but it's still funny.
1:21.2	Yeah, we know it's not real. I posted the story on Tik-Toc and I did it in like two parts and so many people in part one were like this is just a creepy pasta like I can't believe you think this is a real story and I'm like dude I thought you were better than this I was like girl
1:37.8	it's not that serious exactly but my reactions were real because I we got some questions about
1:45.6	about me being in on it. I was not in on it. I was completely reacting
1:50.9	organically authentically and I was just as discussing as you guys.
1:55.0	I can literally pose a screenshot of our texts of me being like, do you know anything?
2:00.2	And Andrea saying, no. But it was fun and I think a lot of people liked it. Yeah.
2:07.6	And I had mentioned in that episode that it kind of reminded me of the Stanford Prison Experiment which if you have taken a psychology
2:16.4	course you have likely heard of the Stanford Prison Experiment it's very widely taught, although it is now kind of debunked slash not included
2:29.5	in as many textbooks, Insight courses, and stuff,
2:32.7	but we'll talk all about that.
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