http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/17/martinbright.theobserver Revealed: why evil lurks in us all Study shows that crude loyalty to our social group and blind obedience make tyranny possible anywhere Martin Bright‚ home affairs correspondent The Observer‚ Sunday 17 December 2000 Psychologists have struggled for decades to explain why ordinary people participate in atrocities such as the Nazi Holocaust or the Stalinist purges. Now experiments carried out in Britain reveal that most people
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never left the drawing board. The acceptance of the public to such an experiment played a large part in it being so famous (right and wrong reasons). At that time many psychologists were on the “trend” of human experimentation ‚ for eg – with the Milgram experiment and so on. It seemed fair enough to plot out the Stanford Prison Experiment. The brief of the entire experiment was pretty straightforward . There were going to be people who were going to be Prisoners and Guards. These people were not
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conduct replications of Milgram’s obedience experiments? Zimbardo’s prison simulation? Can you justify such research as permissible within the current ASA ethical standards? If not‚ do you believe that these standards should be altered so as to permit Milgram-type research? Social scientists should not be allowed to undertake replications of Milgram’s obedience experiment and Zimbardo’s prison simulation at face value just as other instances in the same field (i.e. the tuskegee syphilis study‚ and the
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Conformity and Obedience Why do we conform? Two basic sources of influence: normative social influence‚ the need to be liked‚ accepted by others and Informational influence: need to be correct and to behave in accordance with reality. Solomon Asch (1956) devised an experiment to see if subjects would conform even if they were uncertain that the group norm was incorrect. In his study he asked subjects to take part in an experiment. They were each asked to match a standard length line with three
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THE STANFORD EXPERİMENT What happens when you put good people in an evil place? How the environment affect behaviours ‚ attitudes or beliefs of people? Philip Zimbardo was interested in this questions. Zimvardo choose a prison enviroment as the evil place. Zimbardo prepare the basement of Stanford University Psychlogy Department like a prison to avoid security problems. All of the conditions in basement change for experiment such as guards uniform ‚ prisoners overalls‚ grates ‚ dark cell etc.Zimbardo
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Question One There were many ethical violations that occurred in the Zimbardo Prison Study. The first violation was deception. Although Zimbardo got consent from the participant‚ he did not fully explain what the participant would be going through. They were told that they would be participating in a mock prison study. However‚ they were not told that they would be arrested at their homes and striped searched upon arrival at the prison site. It is very important that you inform participants
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1101-13 23 Febuary 2014 The Perils of Obedience by Stanley Milgram In “The Perils of Obedience‚” Stanley Milgram develops a experiment that puts to test the the question ‚ “Will humans inflict extreme pain to others under the command of higher authority?”. The essay starts off with Milgram explaining the history of obedience by exhibiting the loyalness that was portrayed by followers in historical documents. The experiment that Milgram set up was simple. He elected an “experimenter” who is the
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Outline a key issue for obedience‚ discuss by using theories/studies from obedience for what happened in Abu Ghraib The Abu Ghraib prison is a notorious prison in Iraq‚ located in Abu Ghraib‚ near Baghdad. US soldiers were told to abuse and humiliate the prisoners by their leaders; this included chaining them up‚ treating them like dogs‚ and sometimes sexually harassing them. In April 2004 the abuses at Abu Ghraib were exposed with photos and videos showing US soldiers abusing naked Iraqis. On the
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instructed‚ but not necessarily changing your opinions. Obedience happens when you are explicitly directed to do something. Most obedience is reasonable‚ but when it is to unjust authority‚ the consequences may be disastrous. (Flanagan: 2008: P125) In Milgrams experiment (1963) each participant took the role of a teacher who would then deliver a shock to the student every time an incorrect answer was produced. Whilst the participant believed that he was delivering real shocks the student was actually a
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Human nature Did anyone ever teach you how to lie? Did anyone show you how to steal? How did you learn to cheat? These basic questions form the basis of our debate. We believe that human nature is essentially evil based on religious sources‚ through human interaction‚ and our animal instinct. In order to understand our human nature we must first understand evil. Evil is the violation of‚ or intent to violate‚ some moral code. Definitions of evil vary‚ however‚ evil is commonly associated
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