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Wikipedia: Stanford prison experiment

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Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

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Wikimedia Foundation
Source Type
Encyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier
2
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Wikipedia: Stanford prison experiment
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Claims Backed By This Source (19 claims)

This source backs 19 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 1 connected. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Open Questions, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
  • Studies and Experiments, 7 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 3 general references.
  • Sources, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.

Well-attested

12

Open Questions

Did the Stanford Prison Experiment reveal a genuine, spontaneous psychological effect of institutional roles, or did the guards' abusive behavior result substantially from Philip Zimbardo's own coaching and demand characteristics rather than emerging naturally from the prison situation itself?

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Wikipedia: Stanford prison experiment

Studies and Experiments

Stanford Prison Experiment

Scholarly debate

1

Studies and Experiments

Stanford Prison Experiment

Holds

1

Studies and Experiments

Stanford Prison Experiment

Connected

1

Open Questions

Did the Stanford Prison Experiment reveal a genuine, spontaneous psychological effect of institutional roles, or did the guards' abusive behavior result substantially from Philip Zimbardo's own coaching and demand characteristics rather than emerging naturally from the prison situation itself?

General References

4

Open Questions

Did the Stanford Prison Experiment reveal a genuine, spontaneous psychological effect of institutional roles, or did the guards' abusive behavior result substantially from Philip Zimbardo's own coaching and demand characteristics rather than emerging naturally from the prison situation itself?

Studies and Experiments

Stanford Prison Experiment

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