The three Christs of Ypsilanti

“For some reason, I thought I read the book, but I don't think I did.”

“I think we just covered the book in college in a psychology class.”

“There's a quote here from the book, and big thanks to Dave Ruse for putting this one together; I know this was a huge—it’s a tough one to wrangle.”

“But he's a famous poet at the time, and he was basically saying like, 'You know, surely, Rokeach, the guy who's writing the book, will understand that the character, this doctor, is like out of his mind.'”

“In his book, he also talked about being inspired a little bit by some stuff that Valer wrote about it, right?”

“The entire situation was sad from the start, but there was a passage in the book where Leon receives a letter, and R realizes he’s holding back tears.”

“He made an admission in the book, stating, 'We do not know to what extent our very presence, behavior, and questions may have influenced the results obtained,' which is an odd thing to claim since the primary goal of the experiment was to exert influence over the participants.”

“Despite a lack of closure, the book was published in 1964, achieving significant success in psychology, though it faced immediate backlash.”

“In a new foreword, he admitted to suffering from god-like delusions himself, fully recognizing he had played God with these men, and expressed regret for publishing the original study.”