LibGuides: Psychology: Films & Websites

FILMS

Films on Demand (Log into Esearch to access)
Films on Demand is a database of scholarly film content, which allows you to search by discipline or subject. Watch an entire film, or particular segments of interest. Click on the Collections drop down menu to find films in Psychology.

Stanley Milgram’s Obedience
Call Number: HM1251 (Ask for access at the Circulation Desk)

Presents Stanley Milgram’s classic research on obedience to authority through candid footage shot at Yale University in May 1962. Documents both obedient and defiant reactions of subjects who are instructed to administer electric shocks of increasing severity to another person and shows subjects explaining their actions after the experiment.
Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Study
Call Number: HV6089 .Q54 1991 (Ask for access at the Circulation Desk)

Discusses a prison simulation experiment conducted in 1971 with students at Stanford University and considers the causes and effects that make prisons such an emotional issue. Documentary includes new film, flashback editing, follow-ups 20-years later, and an original music score; reveals the chronology of the transition of good into evil, of normal into the abnormal. See also the website: http://www.prisonexp.org/

Library of Congress Psychology Internet Resources
A wealth of resources curated by the Library of Congress. Includes links to the Child Development Institute, Cogprints, an online electronic archive for scholars doing research in the fields of cognitive science, Mapping Memory from the National Geographic, and Project Zero, a research project at Harvard University with the mission “to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity.”
The Little Albert Experiment
Explore the history of one of psychology's most famous experiments (and mysteries), Dr. Watson's "Little Albert" experiment at John Hopkins University.
Stanford Prision Experiment
Welcome to the Stanford Prison Experiment web site, which features an extensive slide show and information about this classic psychology experiment, including parallels with the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? These are some of the questions we posed in this dramatic simulation of prison life conducted in the summer of 1971 at Stanford University (from the publisher's website).
The library owns the DVD: HV6089 .Q54 1991. Ask for access at the Circulation Desk.