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SUMMARY:Playing with Cruelty: Pop Culture\, Performativity\, and the Stan
 ford Prison Experiment
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DESCRIPTION:Professor Stephen Reicher (University of St. Andrews) in conv
 ersation with Professor Stephen Scott-Bottoms (University of Manchester)
 \n\nThis special event marks the UK launch of a new 3-part documentary s
 eries\, The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth\, which prem
 iers on the National Geographic channel on Sunday 15 June. Social psycho
 logist Stephen Reicher and theatre historian Stephen Scott-Bottoms are a
 mong the expert commentators featured in the series\, alongside many of 
 the original participants in Philip Zimbardo’s notorious “guards versus 
 prisoners” role-play experiment of 1971. Here the two Steves will discus
 s what the series reveals\, and consider some of the wider questions tha
 t it raises:\n\n- What is the relationship between staged role-play and 
 psychological reality?\n- To what extent do psychologists lead or even ‘
 direct’ the events that unfold in their studies? (If the drama is framed
  as a theatre of cruelty\, does cruelty necessarily follow?)\n- What are
  the risks or advantages in popularising experimental outcomes through p
 ress and media narratives? Must one simplify in order to amplify?\n\nThi
 s event will also feature a guest appearance – via Zoom – from Juliette 
 Eisner\, the director of the docuseries.\n\n_______________________\n\nS
 tephen Reicher is the Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Social Psychology at t
 he University of St Andrews. He is an internationally recognised special
 ist on social identity\, collective behaviour\, intergroup conflict\, an
 d leadership influence. During the COVID-19 pandemic he was an outspoken
  member of the government’s independent scientific advisory group\, SAGE
 . In 2002\, Steve was co-lead researcher on the BBC’s partial reconstruc
 tion of the Stanford prison study\, The Experiment.\n\nStephen Scott-Bot
 toms is Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance at the Univers
 ity of Manchester. His recent book Incarceration Games: A History of Rol
 e-Play in Psychology\, Prisons\, and Performance (University of Michigan
  Press\, 2024) re-examines some major psychological role-play experiment
 s from the perspective of a theatre historian and performance theorist.
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LOCATION:John Casken Lecture Theatre\, Martin Harris Centre for Music and
  Drama\, Bridgeford Street\, Manchester\, M13 9QS
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