Re:The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford ...
by djsumdog on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @05:09PM
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> And importantly a majority of the teachers were not properly debriefed until several months later (some never were)
No. No. No. That is entirely wrong. Watch the original video. Every one of the teachers is introduced to the learner after the experiment and they were told no actual harm came to them. At least in the original Milgram iteration, all of the teachers knew by the end.
Re:The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford ...
by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @04:54PM
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And self-reporting about participation in a famous experiment, folks are known to exaggerate.
Some of the teachers undoubtedly thought it was fake, others did not. And importantly a majority of the teachers were not properly debriefed until several months later (some never were). The "dehoaxing" most received immediately following the experiment was itself another hoax which in some cases was meant to persuade the teacher they had in fact been shocking somebody (but that the shocks were only very slight harmless shocks.) The dehoaxing was meant to introduce the teachers to the learner, to demonstrate that he was alive. Some did not even receive this dehoaxing, presumably because procedure was violated, which explains why a handful of them might believe they'd killed somebody.