Overe Prison Study Zimbardo
Stanford Prison Study (SPE), Zimbardo carried out, an experiment. This experiment had 24 final participants. The guards’ task was to humiliate the prisoners and make the prisoners feel powerless. The result of this experiment was that the guards identified themselves as the in-group and the prisoners as the out-group.
In SPE, the participants signed consent to be part of the study. The participants were debriefed and offered money at the end of the experiment. The researches were carrying out an overt observation in Stanford experiment. Overt observation means that the participants know that they are being observed. When the researchers realized that the experiment is turning sexual they closed down their experiment. The study was meant
to last two weeks. But the brutality of the Guards and the suffering of the Prisoners was so intense that it had to be terminated after only six days.
However, SPE explains that the behavior shown by the guards was influenced because of the power of the situation. Also, the prisoners followed the commands. Few said that they want to go home and living their makes them sick, but the researchers were so much into this that they did not realize the pain of the participants.
The study done by zimbardo shows that the power of the situation the guards were in and not because they were evil. The power of situation is shown by the role of a person, and strength of a group over the other group in a situation. Furthermore, because the Guards could not help themselves, they could not be blamed for their actions.
Zimbardo has used this simple and powerful account to explain the atrocities committed by very diverse actors – from the suicide bombers who flew into New York’s Twin Towers on 9/11 to the American torturers at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison. Furthermore, because the Guards could not help themselves, they could not be blamed for their actions.
Zimbardo has used this simple and powerful account to explain the atrocities committed by very diverse actors – from the suicide bombers who flew into New York’s Twin Towers on 9/11 to the American torturers at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison.
In SPE, the participants signed consent to be part of the study. The participants were debriefed and offered money at the end of the experiment. The researches were carrying out an overt observation in Stanford experiment. Overt observation means that the participants know that they are being observed. When the researchers realized that the experiment is turning sexual they closed down their experiment. The study was meant
to last two weeks. But the brutality of the Guards and the suffering of the Prisoners was so intense that it had to be terminated after only six days.
However, SPE explains that the behavior shown by the guards was influenced because of the power of the situation. Also, the prisoners followed the commands. Few said that they want to go home and living their makes them sick, but the researchers were so much into this that they did not realize the pain of the participants.
The study done by zimbardo shows that the power of the situation the guards were in and not because they were evil. The power of situation is shown by the role of a person, and strength of a group over the other group in a situation. Furthermore, because the Guards could not help themselves, they could not be blamed for their actions.
Zimbardo has used this simple and powerful account to explain the atrocities committed by very diverse actors – from the suicide bombers who flew into New York’s Twin Towers on 9/11 to the American torturers at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison. Furthermore, because the Guards could not help themselves, they could not be blamed for their actions.
Zimbardo has used this simple and powerful account to explain the atrocities committed by very diverse actors – from the suicide bombers who flew into New York’s Twin Towers on 9/11 to the American torturers at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison.