Chavvi posted a few ago on an article about Stanley Milgram and the alleged prisoner torture. Along with that, I’d like to mention a guy named Philip Zimbardo, another psychologist doing interesting experiments on human behavior and cruelty. The above like has his article: “A Situationist Perspective on the Psychology of Evil: Understanding How Good People Are Transformed into Perpetrators” (2003). I have not fully read it myself yet, but it looks interesting so far. Here’s a link to his Prison Experiment in 1971.
Here’s a recent article by Zimbardo on the Iraq prison abuses from the May 9 Globe. And here’s an article from the May 10 “New Yorker”. Or check out Limbardo on NPR’s Talk of the Nation. It’s an audio link. There’s some pretty powerful material here.
Newsweek’s Daniel Gross explains the Consumer Price Index (here’s the official BLS site) in a very simple video. I could do without the goofy sound effects, but it’s a good, 2 minute explanation of how the government tracks inflation.
Per David Simon’s Berkeley talk, though, the video doesn’t go into why this matters. Perhaps they’ll cover that in the next installment of the Economics 101 series.
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May 24th, 2004 at 12:18 am
hellow,I am a Chinese.
Pleased to see your weblog.
wish we can be friends.
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June 23rd, 2004 at 9:56 pm
hello i am your sister. Very interesting commentary