[tips] Christina Maslach & the Stanford Prison Study

[Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D.]

Hi all,

I prefer to call it a “study” rather than an “experiment” (e.g., what were the 
dependent variables?). But that’s an issue for another day …

I’ve been discussing the study in class this week. Now that there are so many 
videos posted online—especially interviews of the researchers and participants 
over a 40-year period—I can help students better understand what was going on 
in the study, as well as the influence of researchers and participants on the 
results and interpretations of research.

I’ve put together videos about the Stanford Prison Study (SPS) using clips from 
several sources. I found Christina Maslach’s role to be of particular interest 
because, even though Haney and Zimbardo stated that they became more and more 
disturbed by the “breakdowns” experienced by prisoners, it seemed that they had 
no intention of ending the study …. not until Maslach threatened to end her 
relationship with Zimbardo. 

I put together a short video of Zimbardo talking about the unnamed “graduate 
student” who made him aware that the prisoners were suffereing (a clip taken 
from Quiet Rage) folowed by Maslach and Zimbardo giving a more complete account 
of how the study finally came to an end (from a 2012 BBC documentary … I 
think—I need to double-check that source). The video is here: 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x15qpmyacpitkm8/Maslach%20Ends%20SPS.mp4?dl=0

Jeff

P.S. Yes, I know, I need to learn how to edit videos. I’m working on it.
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[tips] Teaching About the Stanford Prison Study With Video Interviews

[Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D.]

Continuing with the discussion of using video interviews of SPS researchers and 
participants in our teaching: I’ve become fascinated by the influence that Dave 
Eshleman (the prison guard) and Clay Ramsay (the replacement prisoner) had on 
the results of the study. They both had (and have) very “strong personalities,” 
and it was the opposition between them that provided some of the most 
interesting (and scandalous) moments.

Eshleman makes very clear that the demand characteristics were a major factor 
in the results; and the conflict between Ramsay and him, both of whom refused 
to yield to the other, highlighted for my students some of the serious ethical 
problems in the study.

I’ve put together clips from several sources that focus primarily (but not 
exclusively) on these two individuals. The clips come from interviews done soon 
after the end of the study (1971), sometime after the 2003 Abu Ghraib Prison 
scandal (≈2005, I think), and finally a documentary released around 2012 (I 
will track down the exact references and dates).

The video is (again) poorly edited (I’m really trying to get better at it  ).

LINK TO VIDEO: 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hifrmjlru8w8h9b/SPS%20INTERVIEWS.mp4?dl=0

Jeff

P.S. It would have been interesting to have similar material available for 
Milgram's participants. 
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Scottsdale Community College
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[tips] Habits and Behavior Modification

[Michael Britt]

I don’t know if you’re following the current interest in “habits” but there is 
a great interest (has been for perhaps 2 years) around habits - especially 
after the books “Habit”, “Nudge”, and “Hooked" came out.

I’ve read Hooked and I’m working on Habit and it seems to me like this is just 
warmed over ideas from behavior modification.  The key idea in these books is 
that our daily behavior (i.e., habits) have been created (shaped) by external 
cues, which lead to routines, which result in rewards.  Here and there these 
authors throw in a little neuroscience and a sprinkling of ideas from cognitive 
psych, but the core ideas are just things we’e known for years from the work of 
behaviorists.  

If you’re not familiar with Habits, here’s the author of the book on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1eYrhGeffc 


Anyone else think that this is really just behavior mod “re-packaged”?

 
Michael

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Re: [tips] Habits and Behavior Modification

[Paul Brandon]

It’s been going on for years!

On Dec 10, 2015, at 9:04 AM, Michael Britt  wrote:

> I don’t know if you’re following the current interest in “habits” but there 
> is a great interest (has been for perhaps 2 years) around habits - especially 
> after the books “Habit”, “Nudge”, and “Hooked" came out.
> 
> I’ve read Hooked and I’m working on Habit and it seems to me like this is 
> just warmed over ideas from behavior modification.  The key idea in these 
> books is that our daily behavior (i.e., habits) have been created (shaped) by 
> external cues, which lead to routines, which result in rewards.  Here and 
> there these authors throw in a little neuroscience and a sprinkling of ideas 
> from cognitive psych, but the core ideas are just things we’e known for years 
> from the work of behaviorists.  
> 
> If you’re not familiar with Habits, here’s the author of the book on Youtube:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1eYrhGeffc
> 
> Anyone else think that this is really just behavior mod “re-packaged”?
> 
>  
> Michael
> 
> Michael A. Britt, Ph.D.
> http://www.ThePsychFiles.com
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/thepsychfiles/
> Twitter: mbritt

Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
pkbra...@hickorytech.net




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