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To: TimF who wrote (42617)	5/6/2004 11:03:17 PM
From: unclewest	Respond to of 793717

Nice dig. Human nature is not pretty. I have often said humans are the bloodiest of all animals.

To: TimF who wrote (42617)	5/7/2004 1:46:01 PM
From: pheilman_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793717

The point to consider from the prison experiment is how it warped _everyone_ involved. The lead experimenter, Dr. Zimbardo, became the warden, thinking "Here I had a prison break on my hands. The security of my men and the stability of my prison was at stake, and now, I had to deal with this bleeding-heart, liberal, academic, effete dingdong who was concerned about the independent variable! It wasn't until much later that I realized how far into my prison role I was at that point -- that I was thinking like a prison superintendent rather than a research psychologist." The transformation at Stanford took days and involved fellow students. It must be very difficult to prevent abuse in Iraq with a language barrier, fear and battle. Paul prisonexp.org