To: withholdapadues@yahoogroups.com
From: Andrew Phelps <math_anxiety@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [withholdapadues] Re: Fwd: Milgram "Shock" Study Now French TV Game Show of Torture; Nazi Comparisons
Date: Friday, March 19, 2010, 9:23 AM
Hi
The Solomon Asch Institute at Bryn Mawr College [also at the University of Pennsylvania] has given some attention towards issues regarding "notorious" social psychology experiments like the Milgram experiment.
My own focal interest is on the Stanford Prison Experiment. I'm told by my students that it's routinely taught in the Palo Alto public schools and I know from my professional colleagues - from teaching in the Silicon Valley - that it influences projects in educational reform there.
It's easy to look at the "Ethical APA" issues as internal issues of the psychology profession; the fact is, however, that this work group is a social advocacy. Social responsibility would seem to dictate that we examine carefully - and rethink where necessary - the ethical implications of these "experiments with problems."
I don't believe they are just good material for Game Shows.
Andrew Phelps
On Fri, 3/19/10, Nlj wrote:
Also, here's a recent piece by Glenn Greenwald on the same topic of the French TV game show/Milgram experiment:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/03/17/torture
Nlj
Lmn wrote:
The two pieces sent by Ken, this one and the "ethical mirage" one, combine to explain not only torture but APA inner workings. All we can seem to do is try to set in place regulations and boundaries that limit these tendencies and hope that on occasion they will be effective. But we've seen that even the Geneva Conventions and, closer to home, our ethics code and the referendum, are often powerless in the face of these powerful psychological processes.