This may be indicative of European sensibilities, but it is interesting that no one I have read so far on the topic of the Standford Prison Experiment comments on the fact how simple it was to turn staff offices into prison cells: They took out the furniture and swapped out the doors! I.e. the offices already were small and did not have any windows ( Read more... )

Inspired by phoenixcoeur's reading of The Lucifer Effect, I am taking the online reading opportunity my illness is providing me with to get caught up on the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) and the work of Philip Zimbardo. I find this extremely helpful, because being the parent of toddlers is a very powerful position, and the work of Zimbardo exposes how ( Read more... )