Obeying or resisting authority. Psychological retrospective
Description
Echoing the infamous Milgram experiment from the 1960s, this ABC News program sets up a psychological test in which an authority figure urges men and women to inflict pain. Test administrator and social psychologist Dr. Jerry Burger interprets the disturbing findings. The program also analyzes the 1971 Stanford prison experiment as well as the 2004 hoax in which a McDonald's manager and her fiance-directed by a caller impersonating a police officer-strip-searched and abused an employee. Original footage from all of these occurrences is included, along with present-day commentary from Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who designed the Stanford test. Finally, the program explores the ethics of using human participants in psychological tests.
Runtime
36 min
Subjects
- Law (149)
- Interpersonal relations (422)
- Psychology (828)
- Ethics (196)
- Deviant behavior (131)
- Social control (144)
- Forensic sciences (154)
- Social psychology (195)
- Philosophy (274)
- Crime (296)
- Criminal psychology (102)
- Patients (117)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2007], c2007
Database
Films on Demand
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