On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:43:59 -0800, Michael Britt wrote: >Has everybody heard about the upcoming movie which takes >the Zimbardo study and greatly fictionalizes/exaggerates what >happened? Pretty wild: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqmh_wzF0E4
This movie is a remake of 2001 German movie named "Das Experiment". Wikipedia has entries for both films (yadda-yadda). For "Das Experiment": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Experiment Zimbardo has an interesting account of the German viewers' response to "Das Experiment" (he apparently got outraged mail about how unethical his research was, under the mistaken assumption that the movie accurately represented what he had done). Zimbardo had written about this movie for his book "The Lucifer Effect" but the text was omitted from the published version. It is available on the Lucifer Effect website; see: (about 2/3 of the way down): http://www.lucifereffect.com/about_content_extensions.htm For "The Experiment" (the movie referred to on YouTube): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Experiment_%28film%29 The movie should not to be confused with the BBC "re-enactment" by Haslam and Reicher (which Zimbardo was not too happy about; see the above liink to the Lucifer Effect under "failure to replicate"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Experiment The two movies have roughly the same relationship to the Stanford Prison experiments as Woody Allen's film "Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask About" has it's book source, that is, tenuous at best. The main benefit of watching either of the movies is, I presume, to make it into a drinking game such that whenever the story commits a violation of the APA ethical code or a does something that an IRB board would object to, you take a drink. One would have to be willing to get very drunk though. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=7981 or send a blank email to leave-7981-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
