Ben Ash Blum

♦️Pick of the Week♦️ is RANGER GAMES by @benzblum, a staff fave now out in paperbackfrom @VintageAnchor. @hansweyandt calls this rich blend of memoir, research, and true crime “fascinating.” #mwbpicks instagram.com/p/BmZA_DoljXQ/…

The paperback of Ranger Games is out, with a gorgeous new design from @VintageAnchor!

What an honor to be read by @JoyceCarolOates, whose brilliant short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" I have always preferred to the SPE as a primer on conformity and obedience. twitter.com/JoyceCarolOate…

@jayvanbavel .@alexanderhaslam's and Steve Reicher's account is far more persuasive than Zimbardo's ever was. Fascinating to watch the SPE post-mortem already beginning to unfold. Very interested in your lab's work as well, would love to chat some time.

Psychologists: please read this. We must stop celebrating this work. It’s anti-scientific. Get it out of textbooks. medium.com/s/trustissues/…

Great piece by @B_resnick putting my expose on the Stanford Prison Experiment in context with other problematic psych studies twitter.com/b_resnick/stat…

Another great addition to @Medium's #trustissues collection. I routinely teach Zimbardo's "The Lucifer Effect" in my Phil Peace class. Now, I'll add @benzblum's essay to provide well-reseached & well-articulated skepticism. twitter.com/siobhannyc/sta…

The lifespan of a lie - fascinating, explosive stuff on the Stanford Prison Experiment from @benzblum for @Medium medium.com/s/trustissues/… Find much more on it in our archive thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/search/site/%2… including (the aptly titled?) 'Tyranny and the tyrant'… thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-20/edit…

The most famous psychology study of all time was a sham. @BenZBlum asks: Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment? medium.com/s/trustissues/…

"...that would seem to get very close to being out of the realm of informed consent and into the realm of a violation of the penal code." Was the official story of the famous Stanford Prison Experiment a lie? I wrote about it for @Medium medium.com/s/trustissues/…

@gleemie kinda missing 2004 right now.

@gleemie plus sriracha, via "sriracha still goes on everything" theory... I send you back a can of baby corn...