I think the debunking Stephen is asking about involved claims made on the "25 Scariest" site including this sentence about the Milgram study: "Later, many participants claimed they were traumatized for life after discovering that they were capable of such inhumane behavior." My understanding is that that did not happen.
Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Professor of Psychology Box 3055 John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [email protected] (479)524-7295 http://tinyurl.com/DrFroman -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 3:20 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Scary experiments On 30 Oct 2009 at 15:41, Jim Clark wrote: > Hi > > Here's a link to the 25 scary experiments, courtesy of Jeff Ricker on PESTs, > and my comment on the > examples. ricopa.edu> 30-Oct-09 12:21 PM > > http://io9.com/5390389/25-of-the-scariest-science-experiments-ever-conducted > I was just going to complain that the author of that website, Annalee Newitz, ripped off The Chronicle of Higher Education. Oops! It seems the CHE got it from that website. What I clicked on on the Chronicle site took me to her website but I didn't notice. Good thing I didn't leave a nasty comment for Annalee. Jim also said: >claims about at least some of the examples have > been debunked: e.g., Milgram experiment as noted by one > commenter I thought that Milgram held up pretty well despite difficulties in repeating it for ethical reasons. Perhaps Jim could elaborate on this debunking. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [email protected] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
