Pushing Good People to Do Bad Things

Why do good people sometimes do bad things? Professor Polk encourages us to grapple with two of the most famous psychological studies on ethics and human psychology: Milgram’s Obedience Study and the Stanford Prison Experiment. Each study offers invaluable lessons about human behavior. Look at the ways that these explorations into the causes of unethical human behavior were, themselves, astonishingly unethical.

English
  • Originally Aired June 11, 2020
  • Runtime 30 minutes
  • Network The Great Courses
  • Created March 19, 2022 by
    RicaRaducanu
  • Modified March 19, 2022 by
    RicaRaducanu