Comparing Zimbardo And Mailgram's Experiments

Both Zimbardo and Mailgram’s experiments help provide further insight into anthropology, sociology, and psychology studies. Zimbardo's experiment helps us understand anthropology as in the experiment the guards demonstrated a powerful role in the situation and were able to control the behaviour of the inmates. An anthropologist can find this beneficial as we can see the environment causes the inmates to behave the way they do. Zimbardo’s aim was to examine if participants would be able to conform to the social roles of a prison guard or prisoner when placed in a mock prison environment. And with sociology, we can understand how human social behaviour changes. A key part of his experiment was analyzing how such a powerful environment being jailed
Milgram’s experiment also showed that a person’s behaviour changes to submissive when given an order by an authority, which leads to a better understanding of sociology as we look at this social interaction. And finally, the bigger takeaway from this experiment is the major effect of authority on obedience. For example, some participants blamed the experimenter, or even the learner, all because of controlled obedience, which shows how one’s mind can be controlled because of authority. For a variety of reasons, Zimbardo's experiment's results did not justify its use. The experiment was supposed to run for two weeks, but it was stopped after only six days. Due to the mock guards shocking brutality towards the prisoners, the research gained popularity for the wrong reasons. Prior to the experiment, tests on each participant revealed that none of them had any tendency towards sadistic behaviour.Due to a psychiatric breakdown, one prisoner had to be freed from the