Review – The Human Behavior Experiments

Technically this isn’t long enough to count as a movie for 8sails review purposes, but it’s interesting enough that I wanted to say a word or two about it. This documentary combines footage of famous social psychology experiments with more modern incidents such as fraternity hazing deaths and the Abu Ghraib debacle. The results of the old, ethically-questionable experiments have much to teach us about how people behave in groups, particularly under pressure. Like every other former Psych 101 student, I’d read about the work of folks such as Milgram and Zimbardo, but actually seeing the tests in progress was something else, particularly when combined with interviews with some of the participants. Worth seeing