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THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT: THE FAMOUS STUDY THAT WAS PARTLY FAKE

36 min · 23. maj 2026
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Episode 10 | History's Mysteries — Science & Deception In this Mystery episode we focus on the Stanford Prison Experiment — the 1971 study that showed ordinary people placed in roles of authority would spontaneously become cruel, was taught in psychology courses around the world for fifty years, and then in 2018 evidence emerged that the guards had been coached to be cruel and the most abusive guard said he was playing a character he invented. This episode covers the original experiment and what happened, the institutional mechanisms that allowed a methodologically flawed study to stand unchallenged for fifty years, the 2018 investigative reporting and what it found, and the broader argument: how knowledge that is wrong becomes knowledge that is accepted, and what intellectual honesty requires when the compelling story is the false one. How did a study this important go unchallenged for this long? #HistoryMystery #StanfordPrisonExperiment #Psychology #Zimbardo #MysteryPodcast

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