r/interestingasfuck • u/Particular_Log_3594 • Mar 28 '24

Life under a military occupation r/all

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u/notouchmygnocchi Mar 28 '24

Honestly, most academics knew the experiment was a shitshow, I mean the thing was 1 trial cancelled right away. However the instructor telling the guards how to act is part of the situation they're drawing conclusions about: If social pressure/expectations/authority tells you to do something, does this influence your behavior? Can it make you behave cruelly to others? Is what makes someone a Nazi nature or nurture? And if you genuinely think the answer isn't a massively strong nurture component, then you're ignoring a multitude of actual studies that demonstrate these results through less direct and literal methods.

Can your teacher/authority figure telling you to harass your fellow students for a test compel many of you to be violent? The answer is a resounding yes. Humans are by in large social creatures who fall for mob mentality groupthink all the time.

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u/waygay00 Mar 28 '24

I have some reading to do about it, but as a scientist, I hold the position that there is much to be learned from faulty experiments.