The Human Behavior Experiments with Alex Gibney

The soul Behavior Experiments, USA, 2006, 58 min, digital projection

Produced meant for risk television and the Sundance Channel, The soul Behavior Experiments revisits three famous behavioral studies to explore selected perennial questions not far off from why soul beings commit depraved acts under regard social conditions: Stanley Milgram’s compliance to authority experiments, in the sphere of which subjects willingly inflicted torture on one more person; Philip Zimbardo’s alarming prisoner and guard role-playing study by the side of Stanford; and Columbia University’s 1969 experiments which illuminated how being in the sphere of a crowd can cause a diffusion of moral reliability.

“The kind of analytical documentary indoctrination that’s too rare, sadly…” - Brian Lowry, VARIETY


Alex Gibney directed the 2008 Oscar-winning film “Taxi to the Dark Side” and the 2006 Oscar-nominated film “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the sphere of the space.” Other credits in the same way as director include Magnolia Pictures’ releases “Casino Jack and the United States of Money” and “Gonzo: The Life and do of Dr. Seeker S. Thompson.” His credits in the same way as producer include the Oscar-nominated “No conclusion in the sphere of Sight” (Executive Producer), “Who Killed the exciting Car?” (Consulting Producer), and “Herbie Hancock: Possibilities” (Producer).

Gibney’s other melody films include “Jimi Hendrix and the Blues” (director) and “Martin Scorsese Presents ‘The Blues” (Producer), an 8-film documentary succession (and accompanying report and multiple disc release) on the blues, plus films by Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Mike Figgis, Clint Eastwood and Antoine Fuqua.

In the sphere of 2010-2011, Gibney released four films in the same way as director: “My slip to Al-Qaeda,” based on the one-man take the part of by Lawrence Wright, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The threatening Tower”; “Client 9: The growth and Fall of Eliot Spitzer”; a segment on Sumo wrestling in the sphere of the omnibus film, “Freakonomics”; and “Magic Trip”, a measure travel concentration experience not far off from the famous 1964 car slip taken by knowledge Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. In the sphere of addition to the Oscar, Mr. Gibney has customary numerous other awards, plus the Grammy, multiple Emmys, the Peabody gift, and the DuPont-Columbia gift meant for Broadcast newspaper journalism.



Salimah El-Amin is a Producer and Emmy-award winning Film Researcher of theatrical and television documentaries and programs. Her do includes Fahrenheit 9/11, Taxi to the Dark margin, Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues, and Gonzo: The Life and do of Dr. Seeker S.Thompson. Added recently she produced the History Channel documentary How Bruce Lee misused the humankind and was the Film Researcher on the award-winning documentary Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest. She resides in the sphere of Manhattan with her companion and infantile young man.




Maury Silver  is a Visiting Professor by the side of Yeshiva College of Yeshiva University, customary his Doctorate working under Dr. Stanley Milgram by the side of the Graduate pivot of C.U.N.Y. In the sphere of 1977. His interests include ‘Ordinary introduce somebody to an area committing evil’, ‘The Social Psychology of emotions’, and ‘Little moralities of everyday life.’ With John Sabini he has in print two books: “Moralities of Everyday Life”–including the article,”The torturers take home conscience”– and “Emotion, Character, and reliability.”







Dr. Kate Porterfield customary her Ph.D. In the sphere of Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan, someplace she specialized in the sphere of teen and category medicine. Meant for the onwards 12 years, she has worked in the same way as a clinician by the side of the Bellevue/NYU plan meant for Survivors of Torture someplace she provides personal and category therapy to children, adolescents and adults affected by war ordeal and torture. Dr. Porterfield has worked in the same way as a clinical evaluator on several personal belongings of infantile introduce somebody to an area held in the sphere of custody by the side of Guantanamo Bay in the same way as well in the same way as several other “war on terror” personal belongings and she regularly consults with attorneys behavior personal belongings concerning torture and mistreatment. She has in addition presented extensively in the sphere of the contemporary York area and nationally on topics such in the same way as the personal property of war and person in exile ordeal on children, clinical do with traumatized person in exile families, and the psychological personal property of torture. Dr. Porterfield is the Chair of the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on the Psychosocial personal property of War on Children Residing in the sphere of the United States.