Mar 9th, 2007
‘Psychology Of Evil’ Prof’s Last Stanford Lecture
If you haven’t seen Quiet Rage about the Stanford Prison Experiment, you really owe it to yourself to check it out. The price tag may be step, but if you’re at all interested in the psychology of compliance and want to know how atrocities could be committed by ordinary people in the name of justice, this movie will leave a lasting impression.
This isn’t the first time Philip Zimbardo criticized the Bush Administration for the atrocities at Abu Ghraib, but it’s significant because Philip Zimbardo is retiring this year. One of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century, Philip Zimbardo will be missed.
The retiring psychology professor who ran the famed Stanford Prison Experiment savagely criticized the Bush administration’s War on Terror Wednesday and said senior government officials should be tried for crimes against humanity.
In his final lecture at Stanford University, Philip Zimbardo said abuses committed by Army reservists at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison weren’t isolated incidents by rogue soldiers. Rather, sadism was the inevitable result of U.S. government policies that condone brutality toward enemies, he said.
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