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This week, Horizon, the BBC's 'flagship' science programme, considered the brain and violence in an episode featuring ex-Conservative politician Michael Portillo. This is a major national network, communicating the cutting edge of brain research. Expect to be informed? Looking forward to some revelations? (You can see it coming, can't you?) Read More
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That sense of irritation from
That sense of irritation from the glaring omission of the 'how' component qualifying a supposedly authoritative statement of fact - I get that from skeletal media reports about psychopathic killers, for instance, that throw a morsel of 'what' occurred without adding the more curious part of the equation, the 'why'. It just leaves one hovering in a semi state of ignorance.
Ah, Kathleen -- the bad news
Americans eat this kind of bullshit up even more than the British.
How did they manage to replicate Milgram's study?
I am not that bothered about the lack of detail, or the fact that 'why' and 'how' questions were not being properly addressed. BBC2 viewers should know by now that every claim about human behaviour, regardless of the quality of the evidence presented, can be contradicted by equally credible sources. My question is this: The replication was done in Britain. Psychological research in Britain follows the ethical guidelines published by the BPS (British Psychological Society). In great part, the need for such guidelines arose because participants in psychological studies must be protected from the possible psychological harm caused by studies like Milgram's. Is the social psychologist invoplved in the 'replication' a member of the BPS?
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