https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/philip-zimbardo-the-psychologist-behind-the-stanford-prison-experiment-dies-at-91 Safeguarding Humanity Sat, 19 Oct 2024 07:48:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/philip-zimbardo-the-psychologist-behind-the-stanford-prison-experiment-dies-at-91#comment-516175 Sat, 19 Oct 2024 07:48:23 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/philip-zimbardo-the-psychologist-behind-the-stanford-prison-experiment-dies-at-91#comment-516175 Indeed, Philip Zimbardo and the Stanford Prison Experiment have both made a great contribution to sociology and psychology and penology.

]]> https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/philip-zimbardo-the-psychologist-behind-the-stanford-prison-experiment-dies-at-91#comment-516174 Sat, 19 Oct 2024 07:45:36 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/philip-zimbardo-the-psychologist-behind-the-stanford-prison-experiment-dies-at-91#comment-516174 The Stanford Prison Experiment exposed the flawed power dynamic in ALL total institutions, not just prisons! The very nature of residential total institutions involves one person or a small group having almost unlimited authority over the residents of the facility, and the rules dictating every aspect of life, no matter how miniscule, within the institution. In particular besides prisons, psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes and group homes are susceptible to this near totalitarian dynamic as people usually live in these facilities against their will and are completely dependent on the staff for their every basic need.

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