The Human Behavior Experiments

\"Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and right place, they\'re capable of anything,\" says John Huston\'s character, Noah Cross, in the movie Chinatown -- dialogue that seems especially apt watching this engrossing docu collaboration to be simulcast by Sundance Channel and Court TV. Following up on their \"First Amendment Project,\" the cable nets tap filmmaker Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) to craft this thought-provoking examination of three controversial psychological studies whose chilling results still resonate today.

For anyone who skipped their social science requirements: In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram famously explored how the Nazis could have found Germans willing to carry out their barbarous crimes through experiments in which ordinary guys remarkably obeyed an authority figure and inflicted ever-stronger electric shocks on test subjects. Inspired by the Kitty Genovese murder case -- in which 38 neighbors sat idly by as a young woman was brutally killed -- Columbia U. also determined that people are less apt to respond to a crisis in group situations, a phenomenon known as \"diffusion of responsibility.\" Finally, there is the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, in which randomly chosen students were divided into prisoners and guards in a mock prison environment, only to see the \"guards\" gradually subject their charges to increasingly cruel and shocking punishments -- until the experiment was prematurely halted.

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