Philip Zimbardo was the leader of the notorious 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment — and an expert witness at Abu Ghraib
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo has seen good people turn evil, and he thinks he knows why. Phillip will use this 3 minute video to illustrate his points that feature many previously unseen and disturbing photographs from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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In March 2006, Salon.com published 279 photos and 19 videos from Abu Ghraib, one of the most extensive documentations to date of abuse in the notorious prison. Zimbardo claims, however, that many images in his video — which he obtained while serving as an expert witness for an Abu Ghraib defendant — have never before been published.
The Abu Ghraib prison made international headlines in 2004 when photographs of military personnel abusing Iraqi prisoners were published around the world. Seven soldiers were convicted in courts martial and two, including Specialist Lynndie England, were sentenced to prison.
Zimbardo conducted a now-famous experiment at Stanford University in 1971, involving students who posed as prisoners and guards. Five days into the experiment, Zimbardo halted the study when the student guards began abusing the prisoners, forcing them to strip naked and simulate sex acts.
His book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, explores how a “perfect storm” of conditions can make ordinary people commit horrendous acts.
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[..YouTube..] they were paid to do it. Follow the money
[..YouTube..] I think you misunderstood. It’s still the PEOPLE that decided to act in the way they acted. The situation just added the motive. Why do some people kill their spouses and others get divorces? The potential lies within us all, but those who choose evil should face the consequences.
[..YouTube..] What’s more difficult – to gain a accurate understanding from having correctly comprehended a text. Or containing evil itself within a particular place?
He attributed failure to God for not having contained Satan in the hell of which God never said that it’s where he cast Satan down to
In the form of a bolt of lightning, he was cast down upon the earth. The influential presence of evil is upon the earth, tempting & beguiling people to exercise their freewill in a manner consistent with evil
[..YouTube..] Dr. Zimbardo said, “humans who are transformed from good, ordinary people into perpetrators of evil”.
He is obviously from the school of Humanist thought. Tough break! Not the correct answer from amongst multiple choices. It’s really quite easily discerned. “Humanism” – with a name like that & arriving with a loud banging manifesting mouth that claimed “God is dead”. The exalting celebration of humanity along with the promotion to the position of highest authority was immediately followed by
[..YouTube..] the natural ends of proclaiming Ape status. It should have at that point been recognized that something cretinous lurketh in the shadows
Under spotlights it appears as – man is inherently good > but one can’t deny much evil abounds > religion, particularly Christianity, is accountable for the corrupting influence
Such Simianite views predict that all existent atheists ought to be perfectly devoid of any wrong doing. Also, seems to postulate the occurrence of “Spontaneous Religious Generation”
[..YouTube..] I disagree with Mr. Zimbardo. These torturers were trained in the Israeli Negev dessert back in 2001 I believe. His theory may be relevant in other scenarios but not this one, Im sorry. I heard 2 or 3 young recruits before deployment bragging about how they can’t wait to do things like this to innocent people.
[..YouTube..] I agree. Psychology is a pseudo science and Mental Ilness is a myth. He is trying to contextualize and explain away the actions of mean, ruthless, aggressive and hostile people. Many of these military police were salivating at the chance to go in there before the war. It’s in their nature. I do believe that there is a fine line between evil and good however.
[..YouTube..] He’s giving these hostile military police way too many excuses.
[..YouTube..] He was the one responsible for that prison study I had to learn from in psychology class… Wow.
[..YouTube..] Al levil starts at 15 volts.very true.has to start somewhere.
[..YouTube..] Evil is the exercice of power to intentionally harm people psychologically, to hurt people physically, to destroy people morally.
[..YouTube..] This man is my biggest enemy.He is going to ruin whole my life when he really cracks down the evil before I finish my study…such a pity…
[..YouTube..] This man is my biggest enemy.He is going to ruin whole my life when he really cracks down the evil before I finish my study…such a pity…
[..YouTube..] “the situation didn’t corrupt them.”
Correct. It is a test of their true character.
They failed. or succeeded depending on ones moral disposition.
[..YouTube..] “the situation didn’t corrupt them.”
Correct. It is a test of their true character.
They failed. or succeeded depending on ones moral disposition.
[..YouTube..] “If it was so unethical and what not y is he still at Stanford?? ”
Because of the lucifer effect. “good” people chose to do nothing.
[..YouTube..] “If it was so unethical and what not y is he still at Stanford?? ”
Because of the lucifer effect. “good” people chose to do nothing.
[..YouTube..] Ordinary people do “evil or good” by a matter of perception. Not fact.
What is evil or good is relative. Perception is everything.
[..YouTube..] Ordinary people do “evil or good” by a matter of perception. Not fact.
What is evil or good is relative. Perception is everything.
[..YouTube..] AWESOME!
[..YouTube..] Satan (have u seen him)….then you are talking about Lucifer..Gods best angel..
[..YouTube..] Zimbardo looks like satan…
[..YouTube..] atheism, iberalism… the belief that because one is atheist that one actually uses “reason” as an automatic epistemological advantage of atheism…
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[..YouTube..] Kerby I don’t agree. Zimbardo is an amazing professor and this isn’t the only study he’s done. A researcher is not praised by how many works they publish, they are praised for the number of times ppl refer back to their work. The lucifer effect is an amazing effect and some people just don’t understand Zimbardo is an intelligent man. If it was so unethical and what not y is he still at Stanford??
[..YouTube..] no.
[..YouTube..] oh i know what’s going on. because they weren’t good people. people show their true colors in situations where they have opportunity or behind closed doors. the situation didn’t corrupt them. i’ve found from my years of experience on this planet, bad hearted or degenerate people outnumber good majorly. and yes, they go about their lives like everyone else have jobs and appear like everyone else, until you get to know them.
[..YouTube..] woha woha woha people are calling him a sick fuck are u kidding me????
IF IT WASNT FOR PEOPLE LIKE DR Z HAVING THE odasity TO BRING FOWARD THESE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE ACTS OF INHUMANITY , WE MIGHT STILL LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE YOU ARE RECUITED FOR WAR AND HAVE NO CHOICE WHETHER YOU LIVE OR DIE .YOU DO WHAT YOU ARE TOLD , AND FUCKING LIKE IT . KINDOF LIKE IRAQ OR ALQUAEDA. sorry 4 my spelling.
we wouldnt be having this discussion if it wasnt for people like DR. PHILLIP ZIMBARDO.but who am I? right?
[..YouTube..] I thought this was fascinating. I am also rather amused about those of you who are calling Zimbardo the “sick fuck” when it comes to his unethical experimentations and ignoring the fact of those who actually did it. You are actually proving Zimbardo’s point. You blame HIM for it, and diminish the personal responsibility of the students involved- yet then you say that he is incorrect for blaming the system. A bit of an oxymoron there people.
A great talk, I thoroughly enjoyed it
[..YouTube..] What creates the bad apples?
Ideology (patriotism, Relgion, what creates cognitive dissonace witch shift basic moral, has calling black people inferior, Iraqi people evil, etc) and Power
[..YouTube..] What creates the bad apples?
Ideology (patriotism, Relgion, what creates cognitive dissonace witch shift basic moral, has calling black people inferior, Iraqi people evil, etc) and Power
[..YouTube..] Why are the “most disturbing images” removed? THEY SHOULD BE SHOWN TO THE WORLD! If we are going to see and know TRUTH,let us SEE AND KNOW TRUTH! These “unprepared service men and women” looked pretty prepared to me…by higher command in the gov/military.They were INSTRUCTED to do that! On Jim Jones:The ppl were murdered&J.J.had deep ties w/the c-i-a. The Peoples Temple was an experiment by the c-i-A.
[..YouTube..] Why are the “most disturbing images” removed? THEY SHOULD BE SHOWN TO THE WORLD! If we are going to see and know TRUTH,let us SEE AND KNOW TRUTH! These “unprepared service men and women” looked pretty prepared to me…by higher command in the gov/military.They were INSTRUCTED to do that! On Jim Jones:The ppl were murdered&J.J.had deep ties w/the c-i-a. The Peoples Temple was an experiment by the c-i-A.
[..YouTube..] 6:19 FUCK YEAH, Face paint!!!!
[..YouTube..] wow. Disrespectful.
[..YouTube..] This man is a genious.
[..YouTube..] If you can’t breath, dont speak that fast for f*** sake. Its really annoying.
[..YouTube..] Oh, man he finally aged.
[..YouTube..] I watched this when he came to Edinburgh in April. It was really quite inspiring.
[..YouTube..] Breathe, Philip, Breathe!
[..YouTube..] And you don’t know for certain that even one person was saved.
[..YouTube..] Kerby I think you have got it all wrong. Zimbardo did us all a favor by showing us what evil lurks in all of uS. Would you rather not know? The Time paradox is a remarkable study in the way we learn to appreciate time and its broader effect on our lives.
[..YouTube..] the people in abu gharib did what they had to do to get some answers and save human life, you can agree with such a proces or find it barbaric its the ongoing debate of consequentialism, this is not about evil its about: “will you torture the daughter of a terroris that threatens to blow up the hooverdam” or to make it even more specific, will you stay a “descent” human being and let thousands of people die, or will you do what has to be done to stop it.
[..YouTube..] omy goodness those images are horrifying…can’t believe that the actions the Dr. Zimbardo once experimented in a study are still existent but only in the worst way possible.. i did not buy his theory about power overcomes humanity but this says it all….
[..YouTube..] Thanks Dr. Zimbardo
[..YouTube..] I agree with you. Some people are born psychopaths and sociopaths. Its scientific fact.
[..YouTube..] what normal person that doesnt give a crap about all this wants to be considered an “apple” or a “sheeple” why dont we call the ppl behind the scenes “ILLUMSCUM” instead? see how they like it
[..YouTube..] he’s full of shyt! he probably orchastrated that whole abugarag crap from the very start since the 1970’s, he’s prolly just another illuminati dumb ass and his new project now is seek out the “good” apples so he can have them killed..what a jack ass!
[..YouTube..] Very interesting…
[..YouTube..] I love TED talks but the fact that they put this yahoo up is bothersome. The guy is a creep of the worst form. He has self-publicized his way into a speaking career using a single pseudo-scientific study done decades ago. This study was not ethical, not valid, never published in a peer-reviewed journal, and consisted of Zimbardo encouraging college students to abuse and humiliate each other. So why are we listening to the sick fuck?
[..YouTube..] I think anybody who’s actually studied psychology would agree.