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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The Stanford Prison Experiment was a very unique and brutal experiment. In 1973 the professor Philip G. Zimbardo set out to study how normal subjects such as college aged men would react as “prisoners” and “guards” in a mock prison setting. Stanford set up what they called a “mock prison” in the basement of Stanford University’s psychology building. During the experiment there were ten prisoners and eleven guards. The prisoners were stripped of their uniqueness by being dressed in matching smocks
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The stanford prison study began on Sunday‚ August 17‚ 1971. This study was performed by a famous psychologist named Phil Zimbardo‚ his goal was to investigate psychological effects on humans in captivity to see if it had to do with their personality and nature‚ or if it was because of the environment they were in. There were seventy five people that volunteered to take part in this study and some were randomly assigned to be a prison guard‚ and others the actual prisoners. This study was done by
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Looking Back on the Stanford Prison Experiment By: Adrian Gottwein The Stanford Prison Experiment was an experiment conducted by a psychologist known as Philip Zimbardo. Philip Zimbardo was seeking answers as to how people (he selected college students) would act under the influence of an imaginary prison situation. What he found would surprise and amaze us even forty years after its conclusion. The Stanford Prison Experiment was carried out by psychologically healthy college students chosen
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Ethics and the Stanford Prison Experiment In 1971 Philipp Zimbardo carried out one of the most ethically controversial psychological experiment the ‘Stanford Prison Experiment’. Originally he aimed to study how much our behavior is structured by the social role we occupy. Describing the study briefly 24 undergraduates with no criminal and psychological record were chosen for the research to play the roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of Stanford University
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Stanford Prison Experiment The aim of the Stanford Prison Experiment was to investigate how readily people would conform to the roles of guard and prisoner in a role-playing exercise that simulated prison life. Zimbardo was interested in finding out whether the brutality reported among guards in American prisons was due to the sadistic personalities or had to do with the environment of prison itself. This two week experiment was abruptly ended after nine days due to the disturbing behaviour the guards
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ZIMBARDO’S STANDFORD PRISON STUDY The Zimbardo Stanford Prison Study was conducted by Philip G. Zimbardo in 1971‚ at Stanford University. The experiment was to last two weeks and be conducted in the basement of the Stanford University basement. The 24 chosen participants‚ Students from Canada and US‚ would be randomly selected to either be a guard or a prisoner‚ with Zimbardo being the warden. The pay was 15 dollars a day; the study was to see how the effects of confinement‚ in prison life‚ with the
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Investigation The Stanford Prison Experiment Give a basic (introductory only) overview of the study and what occurred • Professor Zimbardio sought to investigate how situational variables impact human behaviour‚ the Stanford Prison Experiment focuses on the roles of ‘guard’ or ‘prisoner’. • During the experiment the guards became increasingly abusive‚ and the prisoners began to show signs of extreme stress and anxiety. • Even professor Zimbardo exhibited the mindset of a prison warden in the experiment
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Stanford Prison Experiment Questions The effects of living in a prison cell with no outer contact is very abysmal. People tend to get very friendly with their prison mates and they even plan and talk out many ideas of breaking out of prison. They also tend to feel achy and horrible inside because of lack of sunlight and not much physical activity is being pursued during time in a cell. Finally‚ they also feel so closed in and hurt inside that they start thinking that suicide or death is a better
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The video contained the results and analysations of a social experiment called the Stanford Prison Experiment. This experiment watched over 24 young‚ healthy‚ college men. They then flipped a coin to see which 12 would act as guards and which 12 would act as prisoners inside of a prison simulation. They acted out this simulation for 6 days before it was cut short due to the amount of cruelty that the men were experiencing. Originally it was to last 2 weeks but after a few had to drop out due to mental
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