Thursday, April 15, 2010

From Milgram to Zimbardo to Abu Ghraib


How would you respond to orders to hurt another person? Can a person's environment influence them to the point of doing things they once considered "evil"? Studies - often quite unethical - hace been conducted over the years to better understand the human mind, what it is capable of and how easily it can be manipulated.  Like most experiments, however, these were born out of of real-life situations that continue exist.  Find out about the famous experiments of Stanley Milgram and Phillip Zimbardo as well as the infamous prison: Abu Ghraib.




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