research psychologist: my goal is to uncover universal truths of the mind. I want to strip out the social conditioning and lay bare the essential facts of the human condition.

research psychologist: to do this I will study 40 white 20-year-olds who attend the University of Ohio

I studied psychology in university for eight years and if I catch you praising the Stanford Prison Experiment I will simply have no choice but to set you adrift in a hot air balloon

@VeryBadLlama Does it count if I praise it as meta textual experiment, and pretend the actual thing was, in fact, a mental exercise that people wildly misunderstood? The psych equivalent of when someone says they are going to perform Schrodinger's cat. Then use that to study people who use it like it has profound meaning, as they have lost the thread.

Kind of like post Freud when people started intentionally putting in phallic objects into art, a very selective mass hysteria.

@Oggie @VeryBadLlama As ‪@ZachWeinersmith‬ pointed out, the experiment has developed a meta layer https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/zimbardo
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Zimbardo

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Zimbardo