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The Stanford prison experiment (SPE) was a controversial psychological experiment performed during August 1971. It was designed to be a two-week simulation of a prison environment that examined the effects of situational variables on participants' reactions and behaviors.
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil is a 2007 book which includes professor Philip Zimbardo's first detailed, written account of the events surrounding the 1971 Stanford prison experiment (SPE) – a prison simulation study which had to be discontinued after only six days due to several distressing outcomes and mental breaks of the participants.
As deindividuation has evolved as a theory, some researchers feel that the theory has lost sight of the dynamic group intergroup context of collective behavior that it attempts to model. [13] Some propose that deindividuation effects may actually be a product of group norms; crowd behavior is guided by norms that emerge in a specific context. [18]
Editor's note: Jennifer Gries, 25, a Stanford employee, was arrested on charges of two felony counts of perjury and two misdemeanor counts of inducing false testimony in March 2023 in connection ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal health agencies on Friday took down webpages with information on HIV statistics and other data to comply with Trump ...
Today, SIDE is used to explain the effects of anonymity and social isolation in various contexts. Research on SIDE has particularly focused on crowds and collective action, [ 23 ] on online teams, [ 24 ] electronic relationships and virtual communities, [ 25 ] knowledge sharing, [ citation needed ] and more recently on social effects of ...
Two major U.S. state bar associations have pushed back after President Donald Trump took aim at efforts to promote more diversity in the legal profession. Trump in an executive order on Tuesday ...
Around 11:30 p.m. the night of October 12, 1974, the Perrys had an argument about their car's tire pressure. Perry told her husband that she wanted to pray alone inside the Stanford Memorial Church, and they parted. [3] Bruce became concerned when his wife had not returned home by 3:00 a.m. and called the Stanford police to report her missing.