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Continuing to acknowledge the power of dehumanizing environments: Comment on Haslam et al. (2019) and Le Texier
Philip G Zimbardo1, Craig Haney2
1Department of Psychology, Stanford University.
Abstract:
Decades after it was conducted, the Stanford Prison Experiment endures as a classic, dramatic demonstration of the potentially destructive psychological dynamics that can be created when one group of people is given nearly total power over a group of derogated others in a powerful, dehumanizing environment such as prison. The authors of the study value the intellectually engaged alternative perspectives that continue to be used to discuss its unsettling results but reject those that are ad hominem, misleading, inaccurate, and unscientific. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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