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. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social/Behavioral Sciences Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Fax: (480) 423-6298 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJeffryRicker/timeline/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeffry-ricker/3b/511/438 --- 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=47522 or send a blank email to leave-47522-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
