In an attempt at understanding the way good people end up doing evil or bad things‚ the Zimbardo’s theory acknowledges that it is possible to persuade good people to be engaged in evil behaviors. Several situations cause such changes in behaviors (Zimbardo‚ 2008). Using the Zimbardo’s theory of good and evil‚ this paper seeks to provide explanations of how individuals are transformed from good to evil. With situations influencing individuals’ behavior‚ it becomes possible for the Lucifer effect to
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Experiment‚ which was originally conducted by the social psychologist‚ Phillip G. Zimbardo. This experiment replicated a real prison that took students to participate in it. Students role-played the prisoners themselves‚ and prison guards. It was conducted in the basement of the psychology department on the Stanford University campus in Stanford‚ California. The experiment turned into an ethical conflict with Zimbardo himself‚ and society. Cruel behavior coming from the guards dehumanized the prisoners
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aspects were the most influential in causing the subjects to obey. The influence of the prestige of Yale University was a key point to get the obedience of the subjects. People are prone to obey more to individuals and organizations with prestige (Milgram‚ 1963). The sponsorship of Yale University to the experiment implied to many participants that the experiment was safe. As McLeod (2007) affirmed‚ “This suggests that prestige increases
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situation where they could feel uncomfortable due to the pressure to go against their own judgements. Asch used 50 male participants from a college in USA‚ the results may have been different if both male and female participants were used. The age of the participants may have also had an effect on the results. It may lack cross cultural validity as the study was only conducted in the USA‚ if Asch were to repeat the study in a different culture the results may or may not be the same. The main disadvantages
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In the passage‚ “Opinions and Social Pressure‚” social psychologist Solomon Asch conducted a study to discover the influences that a majority may have on an individual. Asch discovered a vast amount of people conformed under group pressure‚ and discovered that others may also go against the unanimous majority. Asch wanted to find how group pressure effected individuals and wanted to discover the reach on which social forces played on people’s decisions. One hundred and twenty three male college
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Stanley Milgram ’s Experiment In Stanley Milgram ’s essay Some Conditions of Obedience and Disobedience to Authority‚ the self-proclaimed "social psychologist" conducted a study while working as a psychologist at Yale University. The primary goal of Milgram ’s experiment was to measure the desire of the participants to shock a learner in a controlled situation. The experiment was based on three primary roles: the authoritative figure‚ the learner‚ and the teachers. The authoritative figure instructed
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specialize in the study of age‚ even the process of dying (Zimbardo & Johnson‚ 2009‚ pg. 30). Cognitive refers to the process of knowing and encompasses nearly the entire range of conscious and unconscious mental processes sensation and perception conditioning and learning‚ attention and consciousness‚ sleep and dreaming‚ memory and forgetting‚ reasoning and decision making‚ imaging‚ problem solving and language (Zimbardo & Johnson‚ 2009‚ pg. 28). Behavioral psychology
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Milgram’s obedience to authority experiment countered the participant’s moral beliefs against the demands of authority. For this study‚ Milgram took out a newspaper ad that offered $4.50 for one hour of work‚ at Yale University‚ for a psychology experiment that sought to investigate memory and learning. Participants were told that the study would look at the relationship of punishment in
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adolescence. Whereas‚ Erikson’s theory was that the developmental stages refer to eight major challenges that appear successively across the lifespan‚ which require an individual to rethink his or her goals‚ as well as relationships with others (Johnson&Zimbardo‚2012). Erickson believed there were four psychosocial stages of development; they were trust versus mistrust‚ autonomy versus shame or self-doubt‚ initiative versus guilt‚ and industry versus inferiority. Piaget also believed there were four stages
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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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