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Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s... by totalZero on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:52PM (#26706215)
Most of them aren't experts in sociobehavioral psychology who write books on this particular subject.
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Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s... by pgsimp on Monday April 05, 2021 @08:02PM (#26706284)
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/

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Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s... by totalZero on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @11:09AM (#26712739)
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.
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Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s... by pgsimp on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:10PM (#26731354)
You bring forth one expert to support your claim. I am merely pointing out that there are other experts with differing opinions.
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Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s... by sidlls on Monday April 05, 2021 @09:53PM (#26707127)
An expert in psychology is basically a modern haruspex.
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