The Stanford Prison Experiment

"Dr Zimbardo" sounds like some sketchy character from classical scooby doo and i love it

Zimbardo sounds so much like a cartoon villain

I want to see the flipside of michael's experiment where they choose only people who are pre-disposed and see what happens before and after demand characteristics are introduced. I'd also love to see the most neutral individuals with no predisposition to either violence or kindness.

A weakness of this experiment is its lack of validity. While they reduced demand characteristics, normative social influence and conformity still played a part. Once one person pressed their button, the others may have felt inclined to press their control if they were nervous about being the first to do so out of fear of being seen as 'cruel'. While Vsauce was basing the groups on having similar personalities, no two people are the same and will have other aspects of themselves playing a part in their individual decision-making.

My favorite dude was the one going “There’s no difference if you close your eyes or open them.” 👁👄👁. ➖👄➖

I am still not paying for YouTube Red.

the noise experiment doesn't say much because the team knew that they were going to be buzzed too by the noise, meanwhile the guards in the prison knew they would suffer no consequences due to their actions and cruelty, and i think that these people from the noise experiment would have been more cruel if they were prison guards and would have also been dehumanized sooner or later

that guy who was noted as the most neferious guard is such an evil guy

I can see my self as the dude seeing no difference between closing his eyes and having them open

having dark rooms like that is dangerous, mobs could spawn

Something important to note here is they're called "guards" and "prisoners", if you called them "carers" and "people who need care" you'd get a completely different result, even if everything else was the same.

12:41 Michael: “I would love to do the experiment again.” Jared: (almost gets up and walks away)

Vsauce was given enough budget to produce high-quality psychological studies in exchange for YouTube premium and he just decided to make it free for all of us to watch. What a legend

Controversial experiment: exists Vsauce: lets do it again

I'm surprised that nobody was suspicious of the 'up till level 7 it's not dangerous' thing. That they have been told they could bother the other team with a sound that could permanently damage someone's hearing should have made it obvious that it was fake. Maybe that's also why team 2 figured it out. After that experiment with the fake painful shocks and Stanford, a lot of ethical restrictions were made. I do think Michael's criticism of the Stanford experiment is totally valid.

I was a bill collector for 13 years. I did not know at the time, but I have a neurological disorder. I was “Too nice” for phone work, so I had other rolls in the department. I did observe some of the things the collectors would do or say. The successful collector said stuff over the phone they wouldn’t say to people face to face. They made it their business why people didn’t pay their bills and even how they will pay. One gal asked “do you smoke” the debtor said yes. She told the debtor to pay their bill instead of smoke. Another collector told a debtor to collect bottles to take back to pay the bill. This one collector called in because she was in the hospital. A different collector called the hospital to make sure. Anonymous can create evil. Because collectors got monetary bonuses, behavior became more cruel to get more money.

"It's so weird, there's no difference if you... close your eyes or open them, it's really weird." - this guy was my favorite

"Give somebody a mask and they will show their true face."

You need incentive for this to work. If you did this exact same experiment but said if they finished their puzzle before the other team they would get $1000 I guarantee you the results would be wildly different. Them incentive role is fulfilled in the Stamford prison experiment partly by Zambardo telling them to be more like a guard.... while not the same as monetary incentive its still gives the "guards" a reason to act like guards. This was missing from your experiment.

I remember watching Vsauce as a kid, and now I realize this channel is the whole reason why I ended up developing such a passion for scientific research as an adult now. I feel like a kid all over again, thanks for making us curious.