“The Human Behavior Experiments” documentary on Sundance
A few nights ago, I caught a fascinating documentary on the
Sundance Channel entitled The
Human Behavior Experiments that revisits the question of why human beings
commit unethical acts under particular social conditions. It reviews Stanley
Milgram’s famous experiments on obedience to authority in the 1960s as well as
Stanford’s prisoner-guard study in the 1970s and Columbia’s work on group think. The
film is definitely worth the two hour investment for anyone interested in
psychology.