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Podcast: Play in new window Download Duration: — Do difficult situations make good people act badly? Are there really "good" and "bad" people, or are we all about the same, but put in different situations? Situationism is supported by Milgram's experiment, where most subjects could be easily pressured into delivering shocks to an innocent person https://amazonia.fiocruz.br/scdp/essay/calculus-on-manifolds-amazon/the-criminal-justice-system-of-the-united.php an actor… punked! A more immersive example was provided by The Stanford Prison Experiment, where students took on the roles of guard and prisoner, and quickly became sadistic and passive respectively. John Doris argues that situationism is a direct attack Zimbardo s Zimbardo Prison Experiment virtue ethics, that really there is no such thing as Eperiment virtue like "bravery" or "generosity" that cuts across all sorts of situations.
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While there are of course consistent personality traits, these don't map against the virtues as depicted by Aristotle and our common cultural notions. Rather, they're more context-dependent, specific to certain types of situations.
Watch the new version of the Milgram experiment as shown on the BBC. Read about the criticisms of the Zimbardo s Zimbardo Prison Experiment on Wikipedia. Watch the documentary on the Stanford Prison Experiment. Watch Zimbardo's talk about The Lucifer Effect the book that the recent film about the experiment is based on and his experience defending one of the defendants in the Abu Ghraib torture case; he describes Milgram's experiment and those following it.
Netflix subscribers can see both studies dramatized in films from The Experimenter and The Stanford Prison Experiment. Don't wait for part 2! Get the full, unbroken, ad-free Citizen Edition now.
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Please support PEL! Milgram picture by Olle Halvars. There were nearly a hundred volunteers and he chose 24 and he said in an interview that he purposefully chose bright college students. He wanted to show it could happen to anyone. If anything he seems to have skewed the participants to being more intelligent than average. If anything, I think it makes it more compelling.
When you guys were discussing character over time versus just one instance, I thought this was the best part of the conversation. As I read these and I read them a long while ago I thought the take away point was that we have the capacity to do things that we might believe we would never.]
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