Are You Still Fat?

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On today's episode, we're going to be talking about the milgrim experiments and the stanford prison experiments. We should also say that this is, we're recording this pod castat night, saturday night, to show everybody what kind of lives we lead. So first of all, were were dorks. And also, io abyt you, but i've had a few drinks. I don't drink alcohol, and admit otes. In amitute. Now you just do that mix of coal menad tam, sorto like thing that ends up being crystal mat. Oh, yes. Seudo fed. Thats why you have to show your driver's license to

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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