I ran across Oscar winning documentarian Alex Gibney's "The Human Behavior Experiments" video online [View All]

[Bozita]

... while trying to figure out why so many folks fall victim to propaganda and vote against their own best interests. It wasn't exactly what I was searching for, but it was a real eye-opener!

It's on Youtube in six parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u78eK-aXDq0&feature=related


And this from the Sundance Channel: http://www.sundancechannel.com/films/500013451/

THE HUMAN BEHAVIOR EXPERIMENTS

2006 66 minsColor
Alex Gibney, Director

Documentarian Alex Gibney (ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM) revisits three famous behavioral studies to explore some perennial questions about why human beings commit unethical acts under particular social conditions. Reconsidered are Stanley Milgram’s obedience to authority experiments, in which subjects willingly inflicted pain on another person; Philip Zimbardo’s alarming prisoner and guard role-playing study; and Columbia University’s 1969 experiments which illuminated how being in a group can cause a diffusion of moral responsibility.
TAGS: Social Pressure, Morals, Behavioral Study, Ethics

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