Visión crítica de la explicación de la tiranía basada en los roles: Pensando más allá del Experimento de la Prisión de Stanford

Abstract

A critique of Zimbardo et al.’s well-known “Stanford Prison Experiment” is provided. This identifies its design and procedural limitations and points to misleading interpretations of its results. An alternative study which produced dramatically different results to those obtained by Zimbardo is then described—the “BBC Prison Experiment”. Its findings are interpreted within the framework of Social Identity Theory and suggest a radically different understanding of the psychology of power and tyranny. © 2004 by Fundación Infancia y Aprendizaje.