Thank you for this excellent newsletter -- I will be earmarking it for the next time I teach Intro Psych. I always make a point of organizing my class around "updating" students' knowledge (I've stopped calling it mythbusting, but that is what I do), given how variable I know their High School + Social Media informed "psych knowledge base" is as they come into my class. The text I've been using lately dropped the SPE from their most recent edition and I had a handful of students in my most recent class react quite poorly to this. They found the semester long "challenge" to what they thought was psych-gospel (i.e., I am quite critical of many historical figures and ideas - as we should be, to move our science forward) pretty negatively. I forget their exact words as I type this, but they basically accused me of some form of woke-censorship that to them was appalling! While they were a minority voice -- most students appreciated getting to learn more up to date content! -- it sticks with me as I think about how to best approach the task we have as Intro Instructors -- we are in the business now of changing beliefs as we teach.
As a cognitive psych major 20 years ago, I always thought it obvious the SPE was hot garbage as a serious experiment and it bothered me that it was taken seriously. Didn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as studies like Asch's line drawings.
Thank you for this excellent newsletter -- I will be earmarking it for the next time I teach Intro Psych. I always make a point of organizing my class around "updating" students' knowledge (I've stopped calling it mythbusting, but that is what I do), given how variable I know their High School + Social Media informed "psych knowledge base" is as they come into my class. The text I've been using lately dropped the SPE from their most recent edition and I had a handful of students in my most recent class react quite poorly to this. They found the semester long "challenge" to what they thought was psych-gospel (i.e., I am quite critical of many historical figures and ideas - as we should be, to move our science forward) pretty negatively. I forget their exact words as I type this, but they basically accused me of some form of woke-censorship that to them was appalling! While they were a minority voice -- most students appreciated getting to learn more up to date content! -- it sticks with me as I think about how to best approach the task we have as Intro Instructors -- we are in the business now of changing beliefs as we teach.
Another sadistic, fraudulent Leftist hoax exposed. This "experiment" (actually a carefully stage-managed fraud) has damaged generations of people.
I'd always tough what would have happened if both the guards and the prisoners were women did we come out with the same findings?
As a cognitive psych major 20 years ago, I always thought it obvious the SPE was hot garbage as a serious experiment and it bothered me that it was taken seriously. Didn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as studies like Asch's line drawings.