AnlamK comments on Celebrate Trivial Impetuses - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AnlamK 25 July 2009 04:26:33AM 1 point [-]

How many spurious accounts are you going to register to upvote me?

Usually, I do things like this for 3 karma points but since you look nice, I'll give it to you for free.

It wasn't actually Knobe but John Doris, who also works in the so-called experimental philosophy paradigm. The exact reference is:

“From My Lai to Abu Ghraib: The Moral Psychology of Atrocity.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy XXXI: 25-55

Here is the relevant quotation:

"(i) Passersby who had just found a dime were twenty-two times more likely to help a woman who had dropped some papers than passersby who did not find a dime (88% vs. 4%).27 (ii) Passersby not in a hurry were six times more likely to help an unfortunate who appeared to be in significant distress than were passersby in a hurry (63% vs. 10%).28 (iii) Passersby were five times more likely to help an apparently injured man who had dropped some books when ambient noise was at normal levels than they were when a power lawnmower was running nearby (80% vs. 15%).29 (iv) In Zimbardo’s “Stanford Prison Experiment,” subjects role-playing in a simulated prison rapidly descended to Lord of the Flies barbarism.30 (v) In Milgram’s “obedience experiments,” subjects participating in a study purported to test the effects of punishment on learning would repeatedly punish a screaming “learner” with realistic (but simulated) electric shocks at the polite request of an experimenter."

(I can't use stylistic stuff like linking and quoting... Is there a guide to show how you quote?)

Comment author: Alicorn 25 July 2009 04:31:51AM 3 points [-]

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