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Stanley Milgram's Shock Box is currently on display at the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum in Akron, Ohio complete with a black and white tile checkerboard corridor. It is part of an exhibit titled, "Psychology, it's more than you think" developed by NIHF and the Archives of the History of American Psychology at the University of Akron.
If you are in the Akron, Ohio area, it's a must see. The exhibit closes on October 21, 2005.
Vince Greczanik
Director, Museum Operations
National Inventors Hall of Fame
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From: Informal Science Education Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jenny Man
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:28 AM
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Subject: Re: A Dastardly Exhibit
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Hello,
This Psychology exhibition seems very interesting, is there more information
available on it?
Thanks,
Jenny
On 22/7/05 10:45 pm, "Wendy Pollock" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> The black-and-white squares exhibit Jonah's recalling did seem to be
> one of the most memorable for many visitors to the Psychology
> exhibition. The research he's referring to was by Stanley Milgram
> (the machine in the case was his experimental apparatus). The video
> was about later research by Phil Zimbardo (the Stanford Prison Study)
> in which subjects played the roles of prisoners and guards. Both
> studies were evidence of the "power of the situation": Under certain
> conditions, many good people will do terrible things. As the project
> lead Caryl Marsh once commented to me, however, perhaps a more
> interesting and important question is under what conditions people
> will resist -- and how do we raise children to be able to do that?
> Caryl has written about this exhibit in a book about Stanley Milgram.
> If anyone's interested, I should be able to locate this article.
>
> Wendy Pollock
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