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Have you read the Lucifer Effect? It seems like you might not have read the book.



Does the book contain an apology for perpetrating the hoax? If not I’m not particularly interested.

The Stanford Prison Experiment is the kind of thing that gives the entire field of psychology a bad reputation. It’s literally used as a case study in how not to design experiments.


I'm pretty sure we don't need to read his book to know that his experimental methodology lacks rigor and that the conclusions were not supported reliably by the evidence.




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