On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:42:58 -0700 (PDT), Vivian M Hamilton wrote: > Carlo Prescott was a consultant to Zimbardo in the SPE, according to > the video that Zimbardo/Stanford produced (Quiet Rage: The Stanford > Prison Experiment). In the video, he is introduced by name by > Zimbardo, and also appears several times on the original footage of the > experiment. > >On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:44:21 -0500, Jim Matiya wrote: > I know that Prescott mentioned and was shown in the slide show w/tape >(gosh, I am old!)
I'd like to thank both Vivian and Jim for pointing this out. It has been a long time since I've seen Quiet Rage (probably a couple of decades) and I have no recollection of him at all in it. And given his current opinion of Zimbardo and the SPE, I'm not surprised that he wasn't included in HBE documentary. But his comments and his potential role in SPE have, I believe, some important implications for how we interpret what had happened in the SPE (and, by extension, in places like Abu Ghraib). If Prescott helped to (a) provided suggestions on how guards should behave, (b) made suggestions for particularly brutal or humiliating treatment of the prisons, and (c) Zimbardo did not identify clear rules for the guards' behavior (i.e., humane treatment of prisoners) and provided no sanctions for breaking these rules, to what extent is the SPE a reflection of the "power of the situation" instead of the failure of authority to properly control its agents? -Mike Palij New York University [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
