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..] who mentioned death? or leaders?
like I say, think before you type.
[..YouTube..] Christ, how far up your own arse are you? I don’t think I’ve ever read such arrogant and verbose comments.
[..YouTube..] Christ, how far up your own arse are you? I don’t think I’ve ever read such arrogant and verbose comments.
[..YouTube..] If you were such a “GENIUS” you would also need to think before you type. I don’t indulge myself in Hollywood 2012 Illuminati Propaganda Movies they don’t interest me. Zimbardo’s followers remind of Scientology Cult Members, they would DIE to meet their “leader”.
[..YouTube..] fun fact: you are human.
2012? are you kidding me? get your ass out of movie theatres and learn to think before you type. Zimbardo is a genious and Ihope to one day meet him and shake his hand.
[..YouTube..] he has a good point but i think he’s missing something. He doesnt take into account the individual itself reducing everyone into a generalization of human nature. I would have like a nature vs nurture exposition
[..YouTube..] wow! he’s so goos… makes you wonder about human nature and what we would do if we were placed in a situation of power
[..YouTube..] lmfao what a dumb ass
[..YouTube..] “evil” doesn’t exist, there is only survival.
[..YouTube..] Hold up… right there, at 6:15. What the hell is that? Is that a corpse?
[..YouTube..] I just saw this video in my psychology class. Seems to make sense to me…
[..YouTube..] Humans are NOTHING. He is the only species that kills for sport, lust and greed. He kills his own brother to possess his land. Mankind has acted this way for THOUSANDS of years. You humans are just now technologically advanced to sit down and analyze your primitive behavior. Your religions has caused much bloodshed. You live for monetary purposes. You destroy the Earth. When we arrive in 2012 your concept of “Good and Evil” will be shattered so drastically your genitals will explode!
[..YouTube..] MC Escher was Dutch, not Swiss
[..YouTube..] i just watched this a week ago… guess what we’re talking about in psych today
[..YouTube..] You know he’s on a time limit, yeah? That’s why he is rushing.
[..YouTube..] i think this guy is kind of smart, why do everyine thinks the opposiite?
[..YouTube..] for real?
[..YouTube..] I just attended one of Zimbardo’s public lectures last Friday at my university. It was a waste of time. No actual research of any kind was presented, all he did was sensationalize “evil” and show movies and photographs. Zimbardo is not a scientist, he is an entertainer. He gives the public inaccurate representations of academia.
[..YouTube..] Very poor presentation for a hugely important area – too much data, too fast…
[..YouTube..] is he on cocaine??
[..YouTube..] catch your breath, man!!!
[..YouTube..] catch your breath, man!!!
[..YouTube..] @thesparitan. No, a core component to traditional conceptions of psychopathy is a lack of empathy, and such a deficit has been found to have a sizeable genetic predisposition. I’m sure however, that many existing psychopaths study psychology, and all psychopaths are charming, seemingly incredibly compassionate people by virtue of a lifetime of affective mimicry. If you practice enough at pretending to care, you get really good at it.
[..YouTube..] @thesparitan. No, a core component to traditional conceptions of psychopathy is a lack of empathy, and such a deficit has been found to have a sizeable genetic predisposition. I’m sure however, that many existing psychopaths study psychology, and all psychopaths are charming, seemingly incredibly compassionate people by virtue of a lifetime of affective mimicry. If you practice enough at pretending to care, you get really good at it.
[..YouTube..] guy is annoying.
[..YouTube..] I agree…is sad that this things are real!
[..YouTube..] thats not true. some psychopaths have a great understanding of the theory of mind and have a deep sense of empathy. thats why they are so dangerous.
[..YouTube..] agreed
[..YouTube..] Thank you sir. At last a voice of reason.
[..YouTube..] Freshhhhh1982 is correct. In many studies psychopaths have distinctive areas of the social and emotional side of the brain either lacking, or totally different from normal, social human beings. Psychopaths lack the ability to empathise with others.
[..YouTube..] You’re fixed!
[..YouTube..] Thatta Girl…. that’s better
[..YouTube..] Yawn……………..
[..YouTube..] If you can’t handle the truth, don’t look at it.
Impersonal falsehoods are merely chuckled at & replied to with the mocking playfulness that I’m engaging in currently
[..YouTube..] Precisely! No one was talking to you!
To have wasted even this much time on a morpholobotomized mutard is wasting too much on the mentally morbid
[..YouTube..] Who the fuck was talking to you? Mind your fucking business.
[..YouTube..] that you associate most everything with penises and also want to do your own mother, they’d be insistent that you lay on the couch… at best. Call for a straight jacket… at worst. Then they’d appologize & kiss your ass upon learning that your name is Sigmund Freud
Ask them to prove they’re not deluded about being scientists. Ask them to explain in a scientifically empirical manner how a immaterial culprit makes the immaterial mind, “ill”
That’s a Biological Medical term… only
[..YouTube..] Who wrote the literature? Secular Humanists? Ha Ha Ha, it’s no wonder!
You should know by know, those people are a joke! Supposedly man is inherently good. But the undeniable evil in the world is supposedly caused by religion. However, religion doesn’t spontaneously generate. So if this evil exists, who created it?
That doesn’t require a genius to figure out. But such is the thickness of the secular humanist
Then, inherently humanistic, you’ve got psychotherapists. That if you told them
[..YouTube..] You’re right! He doesn’t understand him!
[..YouTube..] “The potential lies within us all…” …that’s very true – you always have a choice…but it’s better to create structures and circumstances inside a society where “ordinary” people must not choose or act like heroes to defend humanity… …better than building prisons day after day…that’s point, isn’t it?
[..YouTube..] Prof. Zimbardo is absolutely right! It’s good to demystify evilness because the mystifaction of evilness is the fundament of political and moral corruption/manipulation to hide the social structural relativity of violence and power!
[..YouTube..] Yeah, it’s an old screen name.
I’m an Atheist.
[..YouTube..] “Gnostic”? Usually, neither Greek, nor very knowledgable of anything truthful. If English Gin makes one crazy, the Arabic variety will certainly make one a raving lunatic
Your kind claim to know the way of escape… from this, claimed, material oppression. Yet, I never see any of you making a mad dash for the escape route. Only making… mad dashes!
[..YouTube..] Well, perhaps, you shouldn’t include yourself as one amongst those who know what they’re talking about…
Considering that “Titan” & “Zeus” are one & the same!
Wearing many hats & bearing many names are both, at the core of his deceptive game!
[..YouTube..] Yes people are born psychopathic. Read the literature and then send me an apology
[..YouTube..] what a bullshit.. nobody is born a sociopath or psychopath. you might have the disposition for it, which never means you will become one. dont say its scientific if you dont know at all what you are talking about
[..YouTube..] You might try googling Zimbardo – not exactly techno-psycho babble, probably considered one of the prominent psychological researchers today.
[..YouTube..] Are we talking about the Titans and Zeus?
[..YouTube..] If you watched more TEDtalks you would know they are limited on time (usually 18 min I think). He’s talking fast because he doesn’t have enough time.
You are also wrong about heroism. He is defining the heroism AS right action. You (and generally speaking the media) are the one who is adding the celebrity status aspect of to the definition. He’s talking about “everyday heroes” the one who never get recognized. You should also look into the Stanford experiments more before go passing judgement.
[..YouTube..] Heroism is not important. People who genuinely do the right thing are simply living in right action. The heroism is a form of celebrity status that helps no one. This guy was also a bit nuts, talking too fast, and…putting naked boys in a fake prison cell for research?
Who hired this guy? Pat Robertson? This is not a video I would recommend to anyone trying to understand the human condition. The point gets distorted in a bizarre display of techno-psycho babble. Stay off the Rock Star’s dude.