A User’s Guide to The Experiment Exploring the Psychology of Groups and Power Manual to accompany the DVDs B B C ACTIVE Pearson Education ii The Experiment Preamble Cover Photograph The participants (left to right) Guards: Brendan Grennan, Thufayel Ahmed, Tom McElroy, Tom Quarry, Frankie Caruana; Prisoners: Frank Clark, Derek McCabe, Paul Petken, John Edwards, Philip Bimpson, Ian Burnett, Dave Dawson, Kevin Murray, Neil Perry, Glen Payton The experimenters: Steve Reicher, Alex Haslam Second Edition ACTIVE Pearson Education ACTIVE © BBC Active, Pearson Education 2006 80 Strand London WC2R 0RL e-mail:
[email protected] First edition published 2002 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or utilised in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 563 54734 0 Library of Congress catalog card number record available The Experiment Contents iii About this Manual This manual provides material to accompany the BBC DVDs of the four episodes of The Experiment. It is intended to help students, teachers and practitioners reflect on the social and psychological issues that the programmes address and to help people get more out of their viewing experience — whether alone, in class, in a seminar, or in a workshop. On the one hand, the manual allows for a detailed understanding of what happened in The Experiment and of the lessons to be drawn from it.