Mikhail Pozharsky - about social experiments

Blogger Mikhail Pozharsky writes about social experiments and the dominant paradigm of human perception in social psychology:

“I stumbled upon the video of Irina Yakutenko, who proves that propaganda works effectively (I believe that exactly the opposite). <...>

First of all, Yakutenko talks about the experiment of the American psychologist Muzafer Sheriff - Robbers Cave. He made a summer camp for boys, divided them into two teams and forced them to play non -regenerative games. And - Voila - boys from different teams soon began to really beat each other's faces. Conclusion: just give us people, just give a reason. Since 1953, Robbers Kave wanders from the textbooks of social psychology. But here's the matter: there is such an Australian journalist Gina Perry. First of all, she became famous for her book about the famous Milgram experiment, where she showed that Milgram was driving the data for the desired result. But Perry has another book. Yes, just about Robbers Cave.

Everything was even worse there. The sheriff, together with the assistants, provoked conflicts between the boys. Robbers Cave - this was generally the second attempt. The first was the camp Midl Golev. There, the "researchers" smashed the tents of the children and threw their things, trying to dump it on another team. The funny thing is that the boys burned the topic and refused to dance under the pipe of "scientists". Therefore, a second attempt was required where the "scientists" acted more carefully, but in fact. In general, scientific science is in full growth. <...> But Robbers Kave is wandering on textbooks and videos on YouTube.

When you hear about "psychological experiments" - it is worth remembering about Milgrem and Sheriff. Or about Zimbardo - about the exposure of his "Stanford prison experiment", for sure, many are in the know. <...>

After the WMW in American psychology, such a paradigm was formed, which is based on an approximately the following axiom: a person is an evil, but obedient cattle, ready at any time to share on the IN/out -of -group and zigo in the order of authority. Milgram, Sheriff, Zimbardo are representatives of this paradigm who built their experiments with a ready -made result in the mind. If you take the "Lucifer" effect of Zimbardo, he writes there at the very beginning "We, a group of psychologists, wanted to create a scientific basis for our ideas about the right penitentiary system." <...>

Why such a paradigm was formed - the question is open. <...> Be that as it may, within the framework of this paradigm, the herd-autograph side of human nature is mildly exaggerated. It is interesting that Yakutenko herself says: propaganda feeds on our fear. So this paradigm of "social psychology" also feeds on them: with fear that we should only turn away, as everyone around is already zig in the name of the "third wave". And just this fear can lead us to totalitarianism faster than whatever. ”