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RE: Psychology Addict # 50 | Why Good People Do Evil Things?

in #steemstem5 years ago

Great article. That was really interesting. When I started reading I began to wonder if you were going to mention Milgrims experiment. Interestingly, Milgrims experiment has been replicated in recent times, but tweaked to get modern day ethics board approval. The results though were consistent with Milgrims results.

The theme or topic of the article also reminds me of the "Stanford prison experiment." You are probably aware of that experiment already but if not, it may be something you are interested in.

I was not aware of the raft experiment by Santiago Genoves. That sounds very interesting. I'll have to read about that further. I'm interested to learn more about that.

Overall, I definitely believe that all people are capable of extreme behavior under the right circumstances or with the proper "grooming." Often, as Milgrim pointed out, a series of small steps can lead to "shocking" results.....pun pun pun pun. Lol.

But in all seriousness, the Nazi Holocost was also a series of small steps as well that ultimately led to the over altocity in the end.

Great article as always! Well done

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Hey @leaky20 😊

Let me just start by telling you that I laughed out loud at this:

Often, as Milgrim pointed out, a series of small steps can lead to "shocking" results.....pun pun pun pun. Lol.

Oh my ... 😂

Yep, I am familiar with the SPE experiment as well as with the recent criticism towards it.

I only learnt about The Acali (The raft experiment) a couple of months ago through a recently released documentary my husband found when looking for something for us to watch.

Whenever you have 90 minutes to spare I recommend you to see it. It is both disturbing and fascinating. Mostly because Genovés was not testing a hypotheses (although, I assume, he thought he was); rather, he manipulated things in a way to arrive to the findings he wanted to see. Yet, the events developed in exactly the opposite way. Humans are indeed fascinating beings @leaky20.

As always, it pleases me very much to hear you enjoyed reading my writing. Your comments are very encouraging :)

I wish you a great, relaxing weekend.
All the best.