Re: [xmca] Milgram, Stanford Prisoners, etc.

From: Tony Whitson (twhitson@UDel.Edu)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2006 - 19:54:07 PDT


yes, it's the same guy ... I don't know what he said about AG before. He
does talk about the relevance in this documentary but I have not yeat
heard that part of it. I'm listening to it now while I keep doing email.

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Marie Judson wrote:

> Wasn't that the experiment conducted by the same
> Stanford psychologist who recently called what
> happened a Abu Ghraib "just bad apples"?
>
> Marie
>
> --- Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:
>
>> I just caught part of a documentary on SUNDANCE
>> cable TV in the US, called
>> "The Human Behavior Experiments" or something like
>> that. I'll record it
>> when it runs later tonight for the West Coast time
>> zone. I think there
>> will be more showings this week.
>>
>> It gives good presentations of the experiments and
>> of the news events that
>> it presents in relation to those experiments.
>>
>> In the bits I saw, however, I was surprised at how
>> readily speakers were
>> asserting that these experiments reveal "universal"
>> and "invariant"
>> features of "human nature."
>>
>> Tony Whitson
>> UD School of Education
>> NEWARK DE 19716
>>
>> twhitson@udel.edu
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