Stanford prison experiment

controversial 1971 psychological experiment
Event psychological_experiment Q235089
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Stanford prison experiment

Summary

Stanford prison experiment is a psychological experiment[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of psychological_experiment entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,555 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Stanford prison experiment's instance of is recorded as psychological experiment[3].
  • Stanford prison experiment's instance of is recorded as social experiment[4].
  • Stanford prison experiment's Commons category is recorded as Stanford prison experiment[5].
  • Stanford prison experiment's start time is recorded as +1971-08-14T00:00:00Z[6].
  • Stanford prison experiment's end time is recorded as +1971-08-20T00:00:00Z[7].
  • Stanford prison experiment's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 37.4286304, 'lon': -122.1729957}[8].
  • Stanford prison experiment's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01t0xh[9].
  • Stanford prison experiment's organizer is recorded as Stanford University[10].
  • Stanford prison experiment's organizer is recorded as Philip Zimbardo[11].
  • Stanford prison experiment's official website is recorded as http://www.prisonexp.org/[12].
  • Stanford prison experiment's BBC Things ID is recorded as 12945cbc-1d15-4ea3-9dc8-4b797b09668e[13].
  • Stanford prison experiment's plaque image is recorded as Plaque Dedicated to the Location of the Stanford Prison Experiment.jpg[14].
  • Stanford prison experiment's Quora topic ID is recorded as Stanford-Prison-Experiment-1971-study[15].
  • Stanford prison experiment's research intervention is recorded as incarceration[16].
  • Stanford prison experiment's derivative work is recorded as Das Experiment[17].
  • Stanford prison experiment's derivative work is recorded as The Experiment[18].
  • Stanford prison experiment's Google News topics ID is recorded as CAAqIggKIhxDQkFTRHdvSkwyMHZNREYwTUhob0VnSmxiaWdBUAE[19].
  • Stanford prison experiment's RationalWiki ID is recorded as Stanford_prison_experiment[20].
  • Stanford prison experiment's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 35042[21].
  • Stanford prison experiment's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 486619[22].

Why It Matters

Stanford prison experiment ranks in the top 3% of psychological_experiment entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,555 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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