I’m not his biggest fan, having read his report on the experiment he not only acted terribly unethically he also got absorbed in it himself. Its just a really bad thing for a scientist to do, and to do his work these days would almost certainly get him fired. Comparing the prison experiment to Milgrams experiments, which were controlled, safe, and repeatable, is frankly dishonest.
I appreciated the candor Zimbardo put into his book, but that candor underscores your criticisms. Milgram was far more rigorous in his controls, and in his ethics. If one were to “duplicate” Zimbardo, it would need to be done with confederates in the fashion of Milgram’s experiments, and would likely boil down to being an extension of Milgram.
I’m not his biggest fan, having read his report on the experiment he not only acted terribly unethically he also got absorbed in it himself. Its just a really bad thing for a scientist to do, and to do his work these days would almost certainly get him fired. Comparing the prison experiment to Milgrams experiments, which were controlled, safe, and repeatable, is frankly dishonest.
I appreciated the candor Zimbardo put into his book, but that candor underscores your criticisms. Milgram was far more rigorous in his controls, and in his ethics. If one were to “duplicate” Zimbardo, it would need to be done with confederates in the fashion of Milgram’s experiments, and would likely boil down to being an extension of Milgram.