Throughout time obedience and the ability to follow commands has played an important role in the social and political aspects of societies. Most societies are based on sets of rules which are meant to be obeyed and are instituted by an authority figure which is at the top of a certain social class. However‚ in The Art of War Sun Tzu states that disobedience is necessary and of greater value within a culture‚ an empire or a society. This is as a consequence of the relationship between a general and
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People tend to believe that there is a clear line between good and evil – with them on one side‚ others always evil. Philip Zimbardo reveals that this line is far more permeable. Good can turn bad‚ and ‘evil’ people capable of redemption. He describes evil as “exercising power to intentionally harm people (psychologically)‚ to hurt people (physically)‚ to destroy people (mortally)‚ or ideas‚ and to commit crimes against humanity”. The question offered is‚ what is it that makes people turn evil? It
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corrections or rehabilitation centers. So i’m gonna focus on the role of psychology that shaped the jail policies. One of the event that changed the way people were treated in prisons for the last 25-30 years was the stanford prison experiment. Stanford experiment was conducted in 1973 by craig haney and Philip zimbardo. A group of healthy‚ normal college students were temporily but dramatically transformed in the course of six days spent in a prison like environment. Emotionally strong college
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The whole of the dialogue takes place at Socrates’ prison cell‚ where he awaits his execution just days away. It started with Socrates waking up and finding his friend and loyal disciple Crito there. When Socrates asked how Crito got inside the prison at that early an hour‚ Crito told him that he simply knows the guard and has done the guard some favor. Crito then informed Socrates that the ship from Delos has already come in and tomorrow will be his execution. Socrates then told Crito about a dream
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sense hidden from the outside. As they began to explore the artist limits‚ they also started to push it a little farter each time. They wanted to see how much they could get away with. This can be related to social experiments such as the “Stanford Prison Experiment”. This experiment was conducted by the University of Stanford in 1973. To explore the relationship between guars and prisoners. By converting a basement of the Stanford University Psychology Building into a mock prison and randomly assigning
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In selecting and reviewing the article by Zimbardo Revisiting Stanford Prison Experiment‚ by the 1970s‚ psychologists had done a series of studies establishing the social power of groups; they showed‚ for example‚ that groups of strangers could persuade people to believe statements that were obviously false (Zimbardo 2007). Given the Stanford Prison Experiment had some ethical issues and concerns. The research question identified in this study review; Zimbardo wanted to know who wins good people
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how and why ordinary people do unusual things‚ things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?” And this is exactly what he tested in his Stanford Prison experiment. Philip Zimbardo was born on March 23 in 1933 in New York City. Being raised in the South Bronx‚ he was the first person to attend college in his family. After enrolling in Brooklyn College‚ that’s where he earned his bachelors degree in 1954
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conformity. There are a lot of people who will conform to anything no matter what it is just to fit in. Asch created this experiment to actually see how much people are pressured to conform no matter how obvious it is. Conformity is “the tendency for people to adopt the behavior and opinions presented by other group members” (Zimbardo‚ 571). Solomon Asch finally conducted the experiment in 1951 on a group of male participants. Asch created two cards‚ the first card had a line that the participants had
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relationship between intellectual judgements and social pressure. How does our nonconformity within a group affect our judgements as individuals? Asch attempted to answer the question by conducting a series of experiments. In these experiments‚ the subject was placed in a group‚ the members of which were shown a linesegment‚ they were then asked to identify among three other linesegments one that has the same length as the previous. The answer was indisputably apparent to the naked eye
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when put into simpler terms‚ is when a person follows the standards of a group or of society‚ regardless of whether they are right or wrong. Conformity Experiment One famous experiment about conformity is the Solomon Asch Conformity Experiment. In 1951‚ Asch conducted an experiment to investigate on conformity and social pressure. The experiment was
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