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..] @boqallaf They probably wish they gave him more time too:)
[..YouTube..] Hes a brilliant talker! Makes whats written in a textbook more relevant and intresting! He did a horrible unethincal experiment though, hope those lads where debreifed.
[..YouTube..] @DustyWii8 If you like that thought you’d probably read the bible
[..YouTube..] wow this guy speaks the truth
[..YouTube..] @PurpleHoneyBear So you would watch your own child stick fingers in to the electricity?
[..YouTube..] Why would TED censor his presentation?
[..YouTube..] he’s an idiot. We all have a sin nature. That causes us to do wrong……
[..YouTube..] Autsj! Just lost all credibility build up in the “The Secret Powers of Time”-video by now calling M.C. Escher a ‘Swiss’ artist, whom is Dutch. (at 1:15)
Check your references!
[..YouTube..] @PurpleHoneyBear Very well said. But what defines “evil” for me is knowing (believing) something is wrong and letting it happen or doing it yourself and I think that is the kind of meaning for the term “evil” the speaker was referring to.
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[..YouTube..] But the real problem, I believe, lies in the use of the term “evil” going back through recorded history. What is “evil”? Religion loves this kind of terminology, but really we are all having a human experience and most of it is individual perception. One person may deem something “evil”, and another may say it is neutral or “good”. Who is right? All we have are social values which are subject to our own prejudices and ignorance.
[..YouTube..] Hmm, and I just noticed that he said something completely fallacious.
He said that passive inaction is evil. Passive inaction is not evil, it is not anything. Heroics are wonderful, and we possess the ability to be selfless in certain life and death scenarios. But if you think humans should always do so then you are in for great disappointment because pushing someone out of the way of an oncoming vehicle can be a death sentence, and you cannot expect someone to overcome their nature every time.
[..YouTube..] The whole “bad apple” thing is hilarious because it’s always assumed that the bad apples are the guys at the bottom. Even though evil people gravitate towards power! People are fundamentally illogical, irrational, and they will believe what they are told because otherwise they risk disrupting their personal sense of security.
You get what you ask for in life. If you are bound and determined to be lulled into believing whatever the talking picture box says, then you must accept the dangers.
[..YouTube..] you are evil…if you wish bad.
[..YouTube..] @SnarkLicker i guess the big top pee wee theme song would have been more suitable
[..YouTube..] They should put subtitles
[..YouTube..] @paganiniGOGO why is he wearing that shirt? why is he wearing that superficial faCIAL hair? is he a sadist?
[..YouTube..] why is he wearing that shirt?
[..YouTube..] @whatthehell81 What???
[..YouTube..] @xxxxsjdxxxx …
[..YouTube..] @whatthehell81 What are you talking about??? That has nothing to do with what we were talking about
[..YouTube..] @xxxxsjdxxxx Most of the ones claiming they are jews nowadays are not jews at all.
[..YouTube..] @xxxxsjdxxxx Actually in ww2 the diaspora Jews were slaughtered. The satanic Katholic church and the Khazars, which are not jews, were behind it. And the entities that are with them. It was all planed out, even the loosing of the war, Germanies downfall. Hitler was as much a nationalist as the pope a real christian or Kissinger a jew. And now your small horizon can pounce on my words.
[..YouTube..] @whatthehell81 Man you are so stupid, you´re doing what you´re saying he´s doing. And also when he said “My guards did that in 5 days” he was talking about how fast you can break them. And whar are you talking about when you say that if you want peace, you talk about peace. Yeah yoiu should talk about peace but you also have to talk about those who do bad things. When Hitler was killing Jews, do you think we should just have said “Oh we just want peace” and that would have stoped him???
[..YouTube..] I’ve seen Dr. Z’s Abu Ghraib slide show before. I, personally, as someone with extensive training in nothing, think he overdoes it when the soundtrack lapses into heavy breathing and clocktower bells.
[..YouTube..] “My Guards did that in 5 days!” He sounds like he is proud of it. And he is, in about all of it. What the most important thing in life is: You talk about what you want, how things should be and not protest against something with all your energy. Youre just feeding what you are fighting against then. If you are for peace, talk about peace, not against war. If you are against sodomism and abuse of power, talk about beeing helpful and nice to each other. This man knows exactly what he is doing.
[..YouTube..] I can only be as perfect as this culture I exhault. The universe is made of beliefs, or conciousness. God is the universe. Start taking care of those you care of.
[..YouTube..] @squonk61 you missed the point completely.
[..YouTube..] @boqallaf StanfordUniversity you tube channel have it in a 59 min version Journey from the psychology of evil to the psychology of heroism, PMLSTube has the Lucifer effect in 11 parts. worth the time.
[..YouTube..] “The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse
military service” – Einstein
[..YouTube..] @lokichippy by doing so though, he’s teaching to bring people towards the moral side. I think if you’re right, he’s making amends with the past, he’s becoming a better person.
[..YouTube..] 1:16: Swiss artist? m c escher!? Escher was dutch, com’on you can’t err like that at Ted, Or can you?
[..YouTube..] He needs to stand still. And learn how to breath :p
A very good presentation though.
[..YouTube..] this is the dude that fucked up Ted Kaczynski the ‘unibomber”
[..YouTube..] @phuckmymother Clearly you didn’t learn much from Dr. Zimbardo.
[..YouTube..] FUCK THE SYSTEM!
[..YouTube..] this is so interesting. thanks for posting. i totally agree with zimbardo… in fact french philosopher Sartre had some similar views on the subject
[..YouTube..] @phuckmymother They can quite easily look at the work Milligram did
[..YouTube..] bush and cheney and those who authorized torture all deserve to go to prison for fucking life!
[..YouTube..] @phuckmymother Unfortunately they can — if they can shift the blame (I was carrying out an order), or hide their identity (Stanford Prison Experiment), and without consequence. Therefore we have to make sure that our society, our institutions never create such a situation.
[..YouTube..] I feel a major contributor to evil is our desire to avoid death. We do so be constructing culture.
When we come across a culture different than ours we try to have them adopt our beliefs and if that doesn’t work we kill them.
[..YouTube..] I meant “abide,” I was thinking of the word “obey” at the same time.
[..YouTube..] A good point, but a evil behavior does not justify MORE evil behavior. “An eye for an eye” is out of the OLD testament. Jesus taught that love was the greatest commandment. That HARDEST commandment to obide is: “Love thine enemies.” A bitch, huh?
[..YouTube..] I mean, Satan has to be able to have some influence over MAN, not GOD! lol, boy, that was bad grammar! ;)
[..YouTube..] No, God didn’t do a bad job of keeping evil in Hell, he gave people free will, so that means Lucifer, Satan, the Devil, etc., has to have the ability to have SOME influence over him. However, God, in the end, is always more powerful than Satan.
[..YouTube..] educational culture from the West for many years has valued obedience to “superiors” as a plus … so it is normal that many people act cruelly when given an order (they still believe they are doing the right thing to obey the orders of his “superiors”)
[..YouTube..] all you need is love =)
[..YouTube..] everything is about pollitics including your pathetic display of intelligence
[..YouTube..] @SgtZima He’s… actually…. trying to stop from crying.