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Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men?

June 5th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney does: His one-hour movie The Human Behavior Experiments, which has been airing on Sundance, surveys three of the 20th century’s best known… uh… Human Behavior Experiments: The famous Milgram experiments on obedience to authority, the Stanford Prison Experiment, and Darley and Latane’s studies at Columbia on bystander apathy in response to the Kitty Genovese murder. NPR and Slate both have reviews. It’s re-airing on Sundance twice tonight.

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  • 1 BQ // Jun 7, 2006 at 12:05 am

    I watched this last night and I could not for the life of me figure out what hypothesis the Stanford Prison Experiment was supposed to test.