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Persistent Dispositionalism in Interactionist Clothing: Fundamental Attribution Error in Explaining Prison Abuse

University of California, Santa Cruz, psylaw{at}ucsc.edu

Philip G. Zimbardo

Stanford University

The Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrated some important lessons about the power of social situations, settings, and structures to shape and transform behavior. At the time the study was done, the authors scrupulously addressed the issue of whether and how the dispositions or personality traits of the participants might have affected the results. Here the authors renew and reaffirm their original interpretation of the results and apply this perspective to some recent socially and politically significant events.

Key Words: Stanford Prison Experiment • dispositionalism • fundamental attribution error • prison abuse

This version was published on June 1, 2009

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 35, No. 6, 807-814 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167208322864


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