The Stanford Prison Study || Zimbardo's Talk of the Nation interview (5/4/04)

The documentary, Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment, is available in the Highline Community College library.

1. Attribution
    
1. Attribution Theory
    
2. Fundamental Attribution Error
    
   
2. Social Psychology of Attitudes
    
      A.  Cognitive Dissonance
   
    
3. Conformity
     
1. Informational Social Influence
    
2. Normative Social Influence
    
1. Solomon Asch's Research
    
2. When do we conform?

 

4. Application: How to Create a Cult

 November 18, 2003 was the 25th anniversary of the mass suicide at Jonestown.

• Listen to the background story and interviews on NPR
• A wealth of information about Jonestown is available through the Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University

You may remember the Heaven's Gate suicides, March 26, 1997.

• Background info and mirror of the original Heaven's Gate website