Marie,
Zimbardo has just spoken on that. He paraphrases the Penatgon as asserting
the "bad apples" explanation, but then argues against that on the basis of
the Stanford experiment.
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Tony Whitson wrote:
> 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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>
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