Obeying or resisting authority: a psychological retrospective
Echoing the infamous Milgram experiment from the 1960s, this ABC News program sets up a psychological test in which an authority figure urges men and women to inflict pain. Test administrator and social psychologist Dr. Jerry Burger interprets the d...
Zimbardo Speaks: The Lucifer Effect and the Psychology of Evil
Philip Zimbardo has spent decades researching the transformation of character that occurs when generally good people are led to engage in evil actions. In this lecture, Zimbardo discourses on theories of conformity, prejudice, aggression, social inf...
Order
In this profile of the psychology of leadership, a new prisoner joins the group in lockup, a master set of the guards' keys is stolen, and the two most forceful prisoners go head-to-head in a struggle for authority. Contains harsh, inflammatory, and...
Rebellion
As time creeps by, the exercise of reward and punishment and the friction of social inequality within the microsociety of prison take their toll, fraying nerves among the prisoners and generating anxiety among the guards. In this episode, two inmate...
The Experiment: Conflict
Five guards, nine prisoners...until one changes sides. In this study in elemental power politics, the prisoners work to undermine the guards' authority; the most powerful prisoner is sentenced to solitary confinement, but refuses to go; and the guar...
Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment
Philip Zimbardo skyrocketed to infamy in the social psychology world after leading the notorious Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971. The experiment was designed to test the virtues of "good" and "evil" and to determine whether average people, when p...