Revisiting the Stanford prison experiment: could participant self-selection have led to the cruelty?

Lecture 2: Models with Self-Selection

3. Suppose attendance a¤ects student scorse on exam and propose to divide your students into two groups: those with high attendance, and those with low attendance. An unmeasured variable, diligence, may a¤ect both attendance and exam scorse. Higher values of diligence lead to higher attendance, and so students in the high attendance category are likely to have higher values of diligence than st...

The past and future of U.S. prison policy. Twenty-five years after the Stanford prison experiment.

In this article, the authors reflect on the lessons of their Stanford Prison Experiment, some 25 years after conducting it. They review the quarter century of change in criminal justice and correctional policies that has transpired since the Stanford Prison Experiment and then develop a series of reform-oriented proposals drawn from this and related studies on the power of social situations and...

Modeling Memes: A Memetic View of Affordance Learning

This research employed systems social science inquiry to build a synthesis model that would be useful for modeling meme evolution. First, a formal definition of memes was proposed that balanced both ontological adequacy and empirical observability. Based on this definition, a systems model for meme evolution was synthesized from Shannon Information Theory and elements of Bandura's Social Cognit...

The Durability of Prison Populations

Running Head: VALIDATION OF PRISON INMATE INVENTORY Validity and Reliability of the Prison Inmate Inventory (PII)

This study reports on the psychometric properties of the Prison Inmate Inventory (PII) a 160-item, 10scale inmate screening tool that includes static factors as well as dynamic factors amenable to change through treatment. The PII includes a Truthfulness Scale to assess offender denial, problem minimization and guardedness, factors associated with treatment completion and recidivism. Reliabilit...