I know that I have been using TIPS a great deal lately. I guess I have had an
overabundance of thoughts and questions, and this is always a great place to get
feedback. But, after this post, I'll try to back off a bit.
A student was curious about the Stanford Prison Study: why did Zimbardo and his
co-authors choose the prison situation to study? A colleague and I noticed
that the first author of the 1973 paper in the _Journal of Criminology and
Penology_, Craig Haney, did later work investigating psychological aspects of
law and criminology (Zimbardo was the third and last author). Aronson, in the
1992 edition of _The Social Animal_, stated that Haney "is both an attorney
and a social psychologist" (p. 33).
My questions: Was Haney the major impetus for the study? Was there any
particular reason(s) why the study was done (regardless of who the major
impetus was)? Any other interesting tidbits of information about this study
that might be worthwhile to share with intro-psych students?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Jeff Ricker
Scottsdale Community College
Scottsdale AZ
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