so-called Stanford experiment but please stay tuned

Michael Eisenstadt austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Fri May 21 08:31:29 2004


Milgram was interviewed on Jim Lehrer show. 
He is the author of Obedience to Authority based
to on an experiment he ran at Yale where he was an 
Assistant Professor. (It should be noted that Yale 
did NOT give him tenure for his work and he 
moved to the less prestigous Graduate School of 
City University of New York).  But on the Lehrer 
show he spoke NOT of his experiment but of the 
so-called Stanford Experiment, different presumably
from his, Milgram's experiment of manipulating and 
tricking temporary employess into bad actions. 
Proving what? That those in authority can impose 
themselves on others? Big deal!

It is to their credit that the Yale Psychology 
department denied him tenure for this work.

(look at the book, Wayne, you'll quickly come to the 
same conclusion). He subsequently received the 
the annual sociopsychological prize of the 
American Association of Science for this 
research -- for the same work that the Yale 
psychology department refused to give him 
tenure for!

Wayne, is it that any nonsense you have believed
for 30 years ago is necessarily the truth?

As for Zimbardo and his experiment at Stanford
when did this take place and where was the study 
published? Zimbardo is not mentioned in Milgram's
index.