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“Why not everyone is a torturer”
Opgaveformulering: Write an essay (800-1000 words) in which you analyze and comment on the article "Why not everyone is a torturer". Your analysis must include the writers and their backgrounds and the use of rhetorical questions.
The text ”why not everyone is a torturer” is an article from our English book. The article is written by Alex Haslam and Stephen Reicher who are two psychologists. In this article they focus on what the reason is that someone become a torturer and some don’t.
The writers’ backgrounds have a big influence on their ethos. Stephen is Professor of Social Psychology and Head of the School of Psychology at the University of St. Andrews. He has also published many books on social psychology and he is interested in the issue of group behaviour. Alex is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Exeter. Alex has been chief editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology and he received the European Association of Social Psychology’s Lewin Medal for research in social psychology. 1In the article they are detailing how their research speaks to recent events in Abu Ghirab and also complicates earlier interpretation of the Zimbardo experiment. These earlier interpretations essentially contend something like “if we all shared the same circumstances as the soldiers working the prison, we all would have ended up doing basically the same thing”.
Because of their background and that the article contains some of their own experiments the article has much ethos. The writers include themselves in the article through their experiments.
In the article there is a coherent structure. The theme is introduced in the beginning and while the reading the article the theme is elaborated and in the end there is a conclusion. The conclusion is that groups affect the behaviour of individuals and can lead them to do things they never anticipated. More specific we have to look at the norms and values of a
Opgaveformulering: Write an essay (800-1000 words) in which you analyze and comment on the article "Why not everyone is a torturer". Your analysis must include the writers and their backgrounds and the use of rhetorical questions.
The text ”why not everyone is a torturer” is an article from our English book. The article is written by Alex Haslam and Stephen Reicher who are two psychologists. In this article they focus on what the reason is that someone become a torturer and some don’t.
The writers’ backgrounds have a big influence on their ethos. Stephen is Professor of Social Psychology and Head of the School of Psychology at the University of St. Andrews. He has also published many books on social psychology and he is interested in the issue of group behaviour. Alex is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Exeter. Alex has been chief editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology and he received the European Association of Social Psychology’s Lewin Medal for research in social psychology. 1In the article they are detailing how their research speaks to recent events in Abu Ghirab and also complicates earlier interpretation of the Zimbardo experiment. These earlier interpretations essentially contend something like “if we all shared the same circumstances as the soldiers working the prison, we all would have ended up doing basically the same thing”.
Because of their background and that the article contains some of their own experiments the article has much ethos. The writers include themselves in the article through their experiments.
In the article there is a coherent structure. The theme is introduced in the beginning and while the reading the article the theme is elaborated and in the end there is a conclusion. The conclusion is that groups affect the behaviour of individuals and can lead them to do things they never anticipated. More specific we have to look at the norms and values of a