What We Got Wrong About the Stanford Prison Experiment

Behavioral Grooves Podcast by Kurt Nelson, PhD and Tim Houlihan

Sep 28, 202644:12Science & Medicine

Have we misunderstood two of psychology’s most famous experiments? We revisit the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Robbers Cave experiment with science historians Thibault Le Texier and Gina Perry, who uncovered a much...

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