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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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