{"id":3620,"date":"2018-06-14T18:33:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T01:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2018-06-14T18:33:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T01:33:05","slug":"stanford-prison-experiment-mostly-a-sham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3620","title":{"rendered":"Stanford prison experiment? Mostly a sham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanford_prison_experiment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanford Prison Experiment<\/a> &#8211; the one that proved that people can turn evil based on being given authority. There&#8217;s only one problem &#8211; it was mostly a sham. The original participants have been coming clean: they were hamming it up and were coached. Said one participant, &#8220;Anybody who is a clinician would know that I was faking. If you listen to the tape, it\u2019s not subtle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, it looks as if that&#8217;s not the only experiment of that era that hand a thumb on the scale. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/s\/trustissues\/the-lifespan-of-a-lie-d869212b1f62\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about the study from those who were in it here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all heard of the Stanford Prison Experiment &#8211; the one that proved that people can turn evil based on being given authority. There&#8217;s only one problem &#8211; it was mostly a sham. The original participants have been coming clean: they were hamming it up and were coached. Said one participant, &#8220;Anybody who is a clinician would know that I was faking. If you listen to the tape, it\u2019s not subtle.&#8221; Sadly, it looks as if that&#8217;s not the only&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3620\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-Wo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}