Put in the right circumstances‚ every human being has the potential to be a sadist. In "The Stanford Prison Experiment"‚ Phillip G. Zimbardo examines how easily people can slip into roles and become sadistic to the people around them‚ even going so far as to develop a sense of supremacy. He does this by explaining the results of his experiment that he created to understand more about the effects that imprisonment has on prisoners‚ and how a prison environment affects the guards who work there. In
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point that could be considered obvious is the question that he prose’s is‚ “Why do good people do bad things?”(Zimbardo 1). This question can be answered by a number of contributing factors. Such as how a person was raised and where they were raised. He uses the example of the police man stating that it was a bunch of black and Puerto Rican kids that were vandalizing an unattended car(Zimbardo 7). The officer‚ probably said that because of how he was either raised or how he was conditioned to think while
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Emeritus Philip Zimbardo biography‚ watched videos of his lectures and beginning to read his award-winning book “The Lucifer Effect”. I feel that he shows bias towards society‚ the environment‚ and situation‚ he speaks about how people are not born evil or bad‚ that society‚ how a person up-brining or environment and the situation are to blame‚ although a person those bear some responsibility‚ Zimbardo makes it clear that it is not the individual fault. In “The Lucifer Effect” Zimbardo speaks about
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Zimbardo Research Paper Christina Parker PSYCH 620 October 21‚ 2013 Stacy Hernandez Zimbardo Research Paper Dr. Zimbardo conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) in 1971‚ but the data from that project is as useful in today’s society as it was then. The question now is what impact the study had on social psychology‚ the value of the study‚ the study’s relevance to contemporary world issues‚ the value of the study to humanity as a whole‚ problems and ethical concerns created by the study
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David Icke‚ an author‚ conspiracy theorist‚ and former football player and sportscaster once said “The human race is a herd. Here we are‚ unique‚ eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential‚ and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking‚ unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality‚ we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.” Here‚ Icke is saying that humans often become attached to groups. They do not
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Zimbardo says‚ “core of human nature that good people can do evil things‚ and that good people will dominate over a bad situation‚ in fact‚ one way to look at the Stanford Prison study is that if you put good people in an evil place‚ and we saw who won‚ well the sad message is in this case is that the evil place won over the good people.” (The Stanford Prison Experiment). The main similarity between Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment was that they both descended into darkness.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment‚ conducted by Philip G. Zimbardo‚ was performed to see the process that takes place where guards and prisoners "learn" to become authoritarian guards and compliant prisoners. (Zimbardo‚ 732). The prisoners and guards had many burdens of disobedience. In the beginning of the experiment‚ the "prisoners" were stripped of everything and emotionally torn down for being "disobedient". They were dehumanized in every way. They couldn’t speak to another unless they called
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The age old question of how evil manifests itself in today’s society is still widely unanswered‚ and is still debated in many social and biological sciences. In modern times we seem to see evil a lot more‚ the news is filled with tragedies. We often view the source of evil as a murderer‚ con artist‚ or someone who commits fraud. However‚ what if there was evil inside of all of us? The evaluation of ourselves in terms of evilness starts with psychological experiments that test the theory that‚ when
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The Lucifer Effect: A Book Review The Lucifer Effect is a novel that focuses on the sole question‚ “What makes good people do bad things?” a question the book’s author‚ Phillip Zimbardo‚ is eager to answer. Throughout the novel‚ Zimbardo focuses on explaining the theories behind our senses of conformity and our perceptions of humanity through interweaving psychological theory and experimentation with real world examples. Such can be observed with the chapters dedicated to the Stanford Prison
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experiment. This experiment was known for its mistreatment and dehumanization toward the volunteers. Though this ultimately led to the creation of ethical guidelines and showed social psychologists that situation contributes to a person’s behavior. Zimbardo truly changed how people think about psychological experiments with The Stanford Prison Experiment of
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