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by wavefunction 3738 days ago
The famous Stanford Prison experiment has numerous methodological flaws[0] and is most likely hokum, and Phil Zimbardo, the director of this study has exhibited numerous moments of questionable ethics. Including sleeping with and marrying one of his research students.

[0]https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201...

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The article you posted seems to be a summary of the findings (as well as a poorly-concealed advert for a book) and doesn't mention any methodological flaws. Am I missing something?
No.
> Including sleeping with and marrying one of his research students.

Right or wrong as a moral or professional practice, this was incredibly common in the 20th Century, and if that implicated bad science, we'd have to discard quite a lot of it.

Also, it's hard to see how sleeping together would cause them to do bad science.