Quick and dirty personal view / summary of classic social psych experiments and effects:
Asch & Milgram: some caveats, but still great
Bystander effect: over-hyped, but still valid (1/n)
Asch & Milgram: some caveats, but still great
Bystander effect: over-hyped, but still valid (1/n)
Pygmalion effect, Good Samaritan, Schachter and Singer’s 1962 experiment on the two-factor theory of emotions: lacking any evidentiary value and probably p-hacked
Festinger and Carlsmith's 1959 cognitive dissonance studies: got impossible results
Festinger and Carlsmith's 1959 cognitive dissonance studies: got impossible results
Zimbardo's SPE: insanely bad (manipulated and misreported)
Robbers cave experiment: less insane than Zimbardo, but probably still manipulated and uninterpretable
Robbers cave experiment: less insane than Zimbardo, but probably still manipulated and uninterpretable
Some references: On Festinger and Carlsmith: mattiheino.com/2016/11/13/leg…
On Milgram's pseudo recent debunking:
Robbers cave experiment: theguardian.com/science/2018/a…
Pygmalion effect: ,
On Milgram's pseudo recent debunking:
Robbers cave experiment: theguardian.com/science/2018/a…
Pygmalion effect: ,
Schachter and Singer’s 1962 experiment on the two-factor theory of emotions: replicationindex.com/2019/02/24/sch…
Based on tweets and blog posts by @Heinonmatti @JoeHilgard @juliarohrer @dingding_peng and @R__INDEX
@Heinonmatti @JoeHilgard @JuliaRohrer @dingding_peng @R__INDEX and @CharlieEbersole for the view that the recent critical take is not that damning for Milgram's experiment
