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Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?

Harvard Business Review

When I met for lunch with Dr. Phil Zimbardo , the former president of the American Psychological Association, I knew him primarily as the mastermind behind The Stanford Prison Experiment. I asked Zimbardo, "Can you reverse the Stanford Prison Experiment?". But is the opposite true? Watch him explain how it works here ).

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Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook)

Harvard Business Review

Everyone online can—if they want to make the effort—become an amateur Asch , Skinner , Zimbardo , Pavlov , Ariely , Kahneman and/or Vernon Smith. They’re passionate and committed to the pursuit of knowledge. Every business can —and will—treat their digital media platforms as laboratories and R&D facilities.

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