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I finished reading Thibault Le Texier's book, Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: History of a Lie. This is the most thorough treatment of the real history behind the Stanford Prison Experiment.

Buckle up for a doozy of a thread! ⬇️👇 After reading the book, it's hard to deny that Zimbardo lied about almost every aspect of the study at some point in the 53 years he lived after conducting it. Some of the most inexcusable lies include:

➡️Saying that 5 "prisoners" left the experiment early for mental health reasons. In reality, only 2-3 did. In fact, one left because the dry air and denial of access to his medication was causing problems with his eczema.
➡️Zimbardo's then-girlfriend (later wife) was NOT the cause of the study ending. In Zimbardo's telling, she visits on Day 6 and is horrified about what's happening and convinces him to stop the study. In reality, she had visited earlier, participated in a fake parole board, and was aware of what was happening in the study before it ended.
➡️No, the "guards" did not all turn sadistic. In fact, most were reluctant about embracing their role, and the day shift guards were actually pretty lenient about rules.
➡️The experiment did not get increasingly intense with each passing day.
➡️The guards' behavior was not spontaneous. They were coached, multiple times, about how to behave. They were given suggestions for punishments, and they did not invent the prison rules.

In a survey of American college students' civics knowledge, males answered almost every question correctly more often than females.





Continuing:

Rosenhan's archives contradict the report of "On being sane in insane places," and his biographer does not think the study happened as described (and can only find 1 of 8 participants).

Throw this one in the #psychology garbage heap.

nature.com/articles/d4158… First the Stanford Prison Experiment and now this. What is it with Stanford social psychologists telling b.s. stories about their "experiments"? These are, at best, performance art. They should not be cited as science.

#psychology

Philip Zimbardo defending his famous study: "It shouldn't have been called the Stanford Prison Experiment. It should have been called the Stanford Prison Experience." #psychology #APA2018

Well, that's some new spin. Zimbardo says that people didn't want to be guards because of anti-police sentiment during the Vietnam era. Guards didn't take it seriously at first. The warden told the one guard to be tough.