I’ve heard a lot in recent time that the Stanford experiment wasn’t all it’s been presented as. That the ones running it interfered so that’s it’s hard to draw conclusions from it. Interested what the facts are on it.
Interesting. I've never heard that, but the study is really presented only as a quick topic in social psychology courses, much like Stanley Milgram's famous obedience project. And I haven't heard much about the movie, just that Zimbardo wasn't happy with it.
My curiousity was piqued enough by your statement that I ordered Zimbardo's book
The Lucifer Effect. Given that my job is in psychology publishing I don't tend to gravitate toward that for pleasure reading, so it's likely going to go at the bottom of my to-be-read stack.
Quick postscript: I did find this article—https://www.insidehighered.com/print/news/2018/06/20/new-stanford-prison-experiment-revelations-question-findings—which references the book
Story of a Lie by Thibault Le Texier. But I view Le Texier and his book with skepticism because, after studying and working in the field of psychology publishing for more than 30 years, I've never heard of him.
Hmm, I should probably email my older daughter all this instead of going on and on here.