T h e SPE: Ethics and Extensions
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more than seventeen years of his life. The changes in his professional status and
the enhanced self-esteem that accompanied his teaching at Stanford with me on
the subject of the psychology of imprisonment, and his contributions to the SPE,
have had salutary consequences for him. He landed a good job as the radio talk-
show host of Carlo's Corner on San Francisco's KGO station, where he provoked
his listeners to social consciousness and offered penetrating insights into racist
and fascist trends in the United States. He also taught other college courses, lec-
tured in the community, did community service, gave congressional testimony
along with me, and has been a model citizen all these years.
Craig Haney went on to graduate from Stanford University's Law School with J.D.,
as well as a Ph.D. from our Psychology Department. He is a professor on the fac-
ulty of the University of California. Santa Cruz, where he teaches popular courses
in psychology and law and in the psychology of institutions. Craig has become
one of the nation's leading consultants on prison conditions and one of only a
handful of psychological experts working with attorneys who represent prisoner
class action suits in the United States. He has written extensively and brilliantly
about many different aspects of crime, punishment, execution, and correction.
We have collaborated on a number of professional journal articles, books, and
trade magazines.
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His statement of the impact that the SPE had on him clearly
shows the worth of this experiment:
For me. the Stanford Prison Experiment was a formative, career-altering
experience. I had just finished my second year as a psychology graduate
student at Stanford when Phil Zimbardo, Curtis Banks, and I began to plan
this research. My interests in applying social psychology to questions of
crime and punishment had just begun to crystallize, with Phil Zimbardo's
blessing and support. . . . Not long after I finished my work on the SPE I
began to study actual prisons and eventually focused also on the social
histories that helped to shape the lives of the people who were confined in-
side them. But I never lost sight of the perspective on institutions that I
gleaned from observing and evaluating the results of 6 short days inside
our simulated prison.
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Christina Maslach, the heroine of the SPE, is now a psychology professor at the
University of California, Berkeley, vice provost of undergraduate education, dean
of letters and sciences, and a Carnegie Foundation Distinguished Professor of the
Year. Her brief but powerful experience in the SPE also had a positive impact on
her career decisions, as she said in this retrospective a c c o u n t :
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For me, the important legacy of the prison experiment is what I learned
from my personal experience and how that helped to shape my own subse-
quent professional contributions to psychology. What I learned about
most directly was the psychology of dehumanization—how basically good
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