The Human Behavior Experiments

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Documentarian Alex Gibney (ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM) revisits three famous behavioral studies to explore some perennial questions about why human beings commit unethical acts under particular social conditions. Reconsidered are Stanley Milgram’s obedience to authority experiments, in which subjects willingly inflicted pain on another person; Philip Zimbardo’s alarming prisoner and guard role-playing study; and Columbia University’s 1969 experiments which illuminated how being in a group can cause a diffusion of moral responsibility.

This movie provides insight as to how the prison guards at Abu Ghraib could carry out the things that took place there. It reminded me of how police and especially riot police here in America get carried away and violate our basic human rights like what happened at the RNC and the DNC a few years ago and also what happened at the G-20 last year. The cops get all worked up to the point where they see no wrong in beating American citizens and that group mentality escalates to the point of insanity.