The Hippies Love Ins, Beins

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A clip from the stanford prison experiment, which took place in 19 71. It was an experiment when they witha randomly divided college students who are psychologically screened so that they were healthy individuals. The zimbardo played the role of the prison superintendent. And he said, right, well, now you've got to keep control of these prisoners. After a day and a half, already one of the prisoners had had a nervous breakdown.

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.

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"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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