The Human Behavior Experiments

Editor's Take

Returning to psychology's most notorious studies, this film reconsiders the Milgram obedience experiments and the Stanford Prison Experiment alongside their troubling conclusions. It asks how ordinary people can be induced to commit cruelty under particular conditions, and what those findings say about the rest of us. The material remains ethically fraught, and the film treats the experiments as much as cautionary episodes as scientific results.

The Human Behavior Experiments revisits the most disturbing and revealing psychology studies ever conducted. The film examines the Milgram obedience experiments, the Stanford Prison Experiment, and their unsettling conclusions about human nature. It asks how ordinary people can be led to commit cruel acts under the right conditions. Provocative and thought-provoking, it is a compelling watch on the darker side of the mind. Free to stream in 4K on Dr Documentary.

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