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This guy is completely unethical. In addition to his famous 'Prison Experiment' he engaged in relations with one of his graduate students.

Psychology is full of hucksters like Zimbardo.

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Sure, Psychology isn’t much of a science, but the list of college professors who didn’t sleep with students in the 70s has to be very, very, short.

Since when is psychology not much of a science?

I'm guessing valuearb means the few decades of research that lead up to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#In_psycholo... ?

Consensuality is such a fragile thing, when benefits and/or potential for exerting pressure are involved. Well, at least we don't need evidence that it wasn't consensual. /s

ETA: I've added sarcasm tag.

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