The articles “The Stanford Prison Experiment” written by Philip G. Zimbardo and “The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience” composed by Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton both focus on the effects of power. In which the subjects have been ordered to follow something by superiors. In the experiment the original group of subjects are divided into the role of guards‚ and inmates. The massacre‚ however‚ was not an experiment but was the result of an order issued by a higher ranking official
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Fake prisoners and fake guards in a spurious jail is a peculiar way to determine roles in society. Philip G. Zimbardo was the mastermind of the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ which was a psychological experiment that determined the roles of members in a society that became a fiasco (“Philip G. Zimbardo” 1). The experiment left emotional and mental scars on mock-prisoner lives. The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) illustrates the way a person changes when a label and power is all of a sudden given to
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On 10/25/2015 at approximately 1609 hours at the address listed above. I was assigned as the Tower 34 floor officer. As I was conducting a security walk in Tower 34 A-Pod‚ cell 8 Inmate Quintero‚ Cesar T221902 was standing at the back wall facing the wall with his cellmate Inmate Gonzalez‚ Yadhir T217188. I asked Inmate Quintero and Inmate Gonzalez what they were doing; Inmate Quintero stated “Nothing.” Inmate Quintero and Inmate Gonzalez then walked out of the cell. At that time I searched cell
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Philip Zimbardo‚ born in 1933 in New York (USA) is a psychologist and investigator‚ who focus in social psychology. His best known work is the Stanford´s Prison experiment‚ searching for an explanation for the violence in the USA prisons. He wanted to know if this behaviour is due to the personalities of the guards (i.e. dispositional) or due to the prison environment and structure (i.e. situational). He later gave class in some of the best universities of the world; Yale‚ NYU and Columbia. His also
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Having power can corrupt a lot of people. When people get power they feel like they can do whatever they want. They feel like they don’t have to listen to nobody and basically there the boss.The person just becomes really controlling.But that’s not always the case some people when they get power they change for the better . But most of the time they become controlling. In the article ¨The man in the well¨ there was a bit of controlling. The kids had a lot more power than the man stuck in the well
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For our stats project we decided to analyze how the characteristics of the person asking the question changes the answer. To do this‚ we asked two randomly selected groups of people the exact question: “do you like pugs?” However‚ one group was asked the question by someone wearing a pug shirt‚ and the other group was asked by someone in plain clothes. We believed the most submissive class to the charastric bias would be the freshman‚ so we used them in our experiment. To ensure this Simple Random
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Obedience to Authority To what extent can humans’ morality be corrupted by environment‚ or are all humans cruel by nature? If an authority figure told another person to jump off a bridge‚ our response would be to reject his command and tell him to jump‚ but what would happen if an authority told somebody to execute a worthless criminal for his wrongdoings by pushing him off a bridge? According to research conducted by psychologists like Solomon Asch‚ and Philip G. Zimbardo‚ under the right variation
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Conformism is a topic that appears to be fascinating in the research world due its ability to influence the decision making process. The author mentions that conformism was not well known or studied until the 1950’s when Solomon Asch conducted a study. The author refers to conformism as an individual’s skewed decision making due to the societal norms of the particular group. Societal norms are the implied beliefs and rules of a group. The author offers the views of society and psychologists when
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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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Introduction Social interactions are all around us‚ and we are judged based off of how well we perform said interactions. In every conversation we have social norms such as not kissing a stranger or slurping your soup. An experiment was proposed‚ and we could choose any experiment and perform it on someone. I chose two experiments and three victims based on the reactions‚ outcomes‚ and some different variables. Experiment Victim A‚ known as kale and the plan of action is to watch him watch t.v.
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