2013-06-30

A man with orange, flame-like hair stands with his eyes closed and one hand placed earnestly on his chest, speaking in a large speech bubble against a dark green background: "I base my view of human nature on a six day long study of 22 non-random young males in which the experimenter was an active participant." A caption beneath the panel reads: "This is what I hear when people cite the Zimbardo prison experiment." The joke skewers how the Stanford prison experiment is often cited as solid proof about human nature despite its serious methodological flaws. Votey (aftercomic), drawn in loose black-and-white line art: a smug, self-satisfied person reclining with a small grin declares, "Take THAT, forty year old psych experiment!"