Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s...
by gsich on Monday April 05, 2021 @09:31AM
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Why? Is porn bad per se?
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Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s...
by totalZero on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:34PM
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Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the Stanford Prison Experiment, seems to think so. He has written a couple of books on the subject of deteriorating development of young men, and has suggested a correlation to the advent of high-speed internet.
Not sure if he's right, but it's certainly a reasonable theory.
He also did a TED talk briefly touching on the subject.
https://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_the_demise_of_guys
Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s...
by pgsimp on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:35PM
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You can always find people believing all sorts of things.
Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s...
by totalZero on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:52PM
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Most of them aren't experts in sociobehavioral psychology who write books on this particular subject.
Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s...
by pgsimp on Monday April 05, 2021 @08:02PM
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Lots of people also write books. And the Stanford Prison experiment has received a huge amount of criticism by now, afaik.
Also being famous does not automatically make you an expert.
Edit: googled citation for criticism of the SPE https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31380664/
Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s...
by totalZero on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @11:09AM
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Whether you think the experiment itself was good or bad (Zimbardo recognized its failures and ended it early), the lessons it taught were invaluable and that's why they brought him in as an expert witness for the Abu Ghraib trial. Your suggestion that "lots of people write books" is a silly pooh-poohing in that context, especially considering that Zimbardo was already a Stanford professor by that time in 1971, 50 years ago.