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David Kaposi, Psychotherapist and Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The Open University

Stanford prison experiment: why do controversial psychology studies still have such a hold on us?

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Two of the most famous experiments in psychology, the Stanford prison experiment and Stanley Milgram’s obedience studies, have been called a sham, a lie and a fraud.

Retraction Watch, a site that tracks withdrawn research papers, has hosted an argument for retracting the Stanford paper. Psychologists have even been told that almost everything they thought they knew about Milgram is wrong.

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