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Pitești Prison (Romanian: Închisoarea Pitești) was a penal facility in Pitești, Romania, best remembered for the reeducation experiment (also known as Experimentul Pitești – the "Pitești Experiment" or Fenomenul Pitești – the "Pitești Phenomenon") which was carried out between December 1949 and September 1951, during Communist party rule.
The term and concept derive from a series of over-population experiments Calhoun conducted on Norway rats between 1958 and 1962. [1] In the experiments, Calhoun and his researchers created a series of "rat utopias" [ 2 ] – enclosed spaces where rats were given unlimited access to food and water, enabling unfettered population growth.
The Experiment is a 2010 American drama thriller film directed by Paul T. Scheuring [1] and starring Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Cam Gigandet, Clifton Collins Jr., and Maggie Grace, [2] about an experiment which resembles Philip Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment in 1971.
Blestemul pământului, blestemul iubirii (The curse of the land, the curse of love) is a 1981 Romanian drama film directed by Mircea Mureșan. The film is an adaptation of Liviu Rebreanu 's 1920 social novel Ion [ ro ] , starring Șerban Ionescu as the titular character, a poor Transylvanian peasant.
The second half of the film shows how Milgram struggles with the public outcry about the ethics of the experiments and how his career advances as he becomes a professor in New York City and continues to study social interactions and social pressure in more benign experimental settings, including the small-world experiment, the lost-letter ...
Traian Herseni (February 18, 1907 – July 17, 1980) was a Romanian social scientist, journalist, and political figure. First noted as a favorite disciple of Dimitrie Gusti, he helped establish the Romanian school of rural sociology in the 1920s and early 1930s, and took part in interdisciplinary study groups and field trips.
Pitești (Romanian pronunciation: [piˈteʃtʲ] ⓘ) is a city in Romania, located on the river Argeș.The capital and largest city of Argeș County, it is an important commercial and industrial center, as well as the home of two universities.
The film follows the two men as they attempt to survive the future and race against time to put an end to the experiment that now threatens the fate of the entire world. The film was released on August 3, 1984 by New World Pictures , and received mixed reviews from critics, but was a box office failure, only earning $8,103,330 against a budget ...