Joy!! Joy!!  My day is made!!

I caught the segment Michael quotes, and was pleased to see Ritz mention
Zimbardo's study.

This morning, CNN ran a seven minute segment with Zimbardo as the sole
interviewee.  AND I GOT IT ON TAPE!!!  Thank goodness for UltimateTV!

I sent CNN an appropriately altered version of my earlier post to TIPS. 
I don't know if it had anything to do with CNN bringing Zimbardo on, but
the important thing is that they did.  (Truth be known, I hope to
maintain the delusion that I at least helped, so please, please, please
do not tell me otherwise.)

Now, I am off to make suggestions for a future CNN Presents special. 
(Hey, when you can be delusional, why not go all the way?  Why settle
for a cookie when there is hope for a cake?)
  

Michael Lavin wrote:
> 
> Former Army interrogator Mike Ritz talking about abuse in Abu Ghraib
> prison stated:
> �Yes, I mean, I think what you're really looking at is a classic "Prison
> Guard Syndrome."
> There was an experiment in 1971 that Stanford University did in the
> psychology department. They took students, half of them were made guards
> in a mock prison and the other half were made prisoners.
> It was supposed to take place for the period of two weeks to see what was
> the psychology involved in that and within six days they cut it short,
> because those students, regular college students, were already starting to
> behave in a bit of a sadistic manner toward those prisoners. So they had
> to end the study altogether.
> This thing happens if you do not have the proper monitoring and
> supervision going on. Or you don't have seasoned interrogators.  CNN
> 
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