After watching the Milgram experiment and the abuse that occur in Abu Ghraib prison. It is clear that leadership roles and authority position can both influence people to do thing that are harmful and bad to others. Leadership focuses on gaining people to follow them and is more based on free will. While authority has the power to tell people what to do. In the Milgram experiment many people back up why they continue administering shocks by stating‚ “Because an authority figure was telling them
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of prison guards and prisoners - the results so traumatised Zimbardo that supposedly he never gave the experiment the complete write-up he intended to. Many years later he acted as an expert witness for the defense of one of the soldiers in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. It was this experience and his frustration with organisations who still explain wrongdoing as being the work of a "few bad apples" rather than a "bad system" that caused him to write this book. Just under half the book (chapters
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of the policy indicates that superiors should not initiate investigation of a service member’s orientation in the absence of disallowed behaviors‚ though mere suspicion of homosexual behavior can cause an investigation. * Abu Ghraib Prison: The images from Abu Ghraib showed prisoners facing dogs‚ being stripped naked and wired up as if being subjected to electric
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The Power of Words In 2004‚ human rights were violated in the form of physical‚ psychological and sexual abuse‚ including torture‚ rape and homicide of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. These acts were committed by military police of the United States Army. Did this happen because the soldiers considered the Iraqis as inhuman‚ and was it caused by having a certain language to refer to the enemies? In war‚ soldiers find it easier to cope after killing if they know that they have killed the opposing side
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soldiers of Abu Ghraib start becoming increasingly hostile as one unit. In The Lord of the Flies‚ Jack eventually takes over most of the island from the original leader named Ralph. When Ralph goes to visit Jack before a storm‚ thunder strikes. Jack decides to have his
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as a kind of summer camp for vicious criminals‚ where convicts comfortably loll around watching TV and lifting weights. Just as false images of the slave plantations strewn across the South encouraged denial of their reality‚ false images of the Abu Ghraibs strewn across America not only legitimize denial of their reality but also allow their replication at Guantánamo‚ Baghdad‚ Afghan desert sites‚ or wherever our government‚ and culture‚ may build new citadels of torture in the
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civilian to turn dark and dangerous. He calls the transformation the Lucifer Effect. This transformation is not what sounds like; it does not take a religious aspect but a psychological one. It is the Zambardo gives many examples‚ including the Abu Ghraib Prison. This
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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
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Angela Amu HSB4U Ms.Lanza February 12th‚ 2014 How do social roles and the environment affect behaviour‚ attitudes and beliefs? Our roles in social institutions and our various environments have a huge influence on our behaviours‚ attitudes and beliefs. When placed in an extreme environment‚ individuals usually begin to stress and feel unsafe. When assigned to authoritative roles‚ indivuals in toxic environments tend to act aggressive and arbitrarily in order to maintain control and avoid
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or may not always be the correct ones. Furthermore this ties in with the daunting concept that we only know what we are told; the media have the ultimate control but how far does this extend? In the cases and media coverage of Hurricane Katrina‚ Abu Ghraib and Weapons of Mass Destruction this notion varies greatly. Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina stands in history as the costliest natural disaster in modern America as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the United States. Hurricane
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