On rethinking the psychology of tyranny: the BBC prison study.
This commentary offers a critical evaluation of the scientific legitimacy of research generated by television programming interests. It challenges the validity of claims advanced by these researchers regarding the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) and highlights the biases, fallacies and distortions in this study conducted for BBC-TV that attempted a partial replication of my earlier experiment.
Zimbardo
Philip G
PG
School of Psychology, Stanford University, CA 94035, USA. zim@stanford.edu
D004291:Dominance-Subordination; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011330:Prisons; D011584:Psychology; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012933:Social Identification; D013690:Television; D006113:United Kingdom