Episode 9: Social Psychology, Situationism, and Moral Character

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2012

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

After discussing some listener feedback about the movie Swingers, Tamler and David talk about two classic experiments in social psychology: the Milgram Experiments and the Zimbardo Prison experiment. They discuss the power of the situation, its influence on recent philosophy, and whether there is room given the evidence to believe in moral character and virtue. Also, Tamler admits to his former struggles with hard core street drugs, and Dave ponders which prison gang would be most accepting if he had to serve hard time.

Links

"Swingers," Directed by Jon Favreau [metacritic.com]

The Milgram Experiment [Wikipedia.org]

Video clip of a replication of the Milgram Experiment [youtube.com]

The Stanford Prison Experiment [Wikipedia.org]

Short video on Stanford Prison Experiment [youtube.com]

Asch Conformity Experiment [youtube.com]

Jon Doris "Lack of Character" [amazon.com]

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Very bad with yours is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:07.6	having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics.
0:11.1	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, and knowing
0:15.6	my dad, some very inappropriate jokes.
0:18.5	Well, I have to do.
0:19.5	Oh, nothing this all did, I assure you.
0:22.3	Simply vomit on me, ever so gently, while I humiliate a fesson.
0:27.3	The plan is on past spoken.
0:33.3	I'm very bad man.
0:35.3	I'm a very good man.
0:36.3	Good man.
0:38.3	I'm raising people, and with no one raising you up.
0:43.3	I'm very bad.
0:45.3	I'm very bad.
0:47.3	I'm raising people, and with no one raising you up.
0:51.3	I'm very bad.
0:53.3	I'm very bad.
0:56.3	You're a very bad man.
1:02.3	I'm a very good man.
1:05.3	I'm just a very bad wizard.
1:10.3	Welcome to very bad wizards.
1:12.3	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
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