The Stanford Prison Experiment “The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.” Said Philip Zimbardo. The Stanford Prison Experiment helped solve many mysteries about forensic psychology and how good‚ normal people‚ can turn evil. The Stanford Prison Experiment was a psychologically intense experiment that affected the lives of normal‚ mentally healthy‚ students who were brought into interference with situational forces
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Stanford Prison Experiment SPE The Stanford Prison Experiment has given a strong hint about how influential the society and situation can be. The experiment was originally designed to test whether the tension in prison was a cause of inmates’ inherently flawed personality; however‚ the result has revealed that any healthy human being can be transformed into a violent figure after being assigned a specific role and put in a designed situation. Indeed‚ the result was shocking‚ and the procedure
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Abu Ghraib Throughout the beginning months of 2004‚ one of the largest military scandals in U.S. history became the center of worldwide controversy. It has been said that the degrading acts by the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib were responsible for the suffering of innocent Iraqi civilians‚ the humiliation of the world’s strongest defense‚ and for negatively affecting the United States’ reputation in the world overall. Abu Ghraib‚ located 20 miles west of Baghdad‚ originally was one of the world’s
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An Overview of The Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford Prison Experiment was designed and conducted by a Social Psychologist Dr. Zimbardo at Stanford University in 1971. According to Zimbardo (1971)‚ the experiment was intended to better interpret “the basic psychological mechanisms underlying human aggression” (p. 1). The experiment’s goal was to test the dispositional hypothesis - whether the uncontrollable violence within an ordinary prison environment was legitimately caused by the existing
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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 Experiment Psychological studies are relatively new as far as the history of scientific research is concerned. As with anything‚ the rules for these experiments have evolved and become what they are today only through past circumstances. There are some main experiments in past psychological history‚ which became a true turning point and reasons for ethical guidelines to be placed. These experiments include the medical atrocities during WWII‚ the Tuskegee syphilis project‚
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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. Outline
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The Stanford Prison experiment‚ in my opinion is a remarkable experiment . It isn’t ethical in the least but the results that have emerged have exceeded even what Mr.Zimbardo set out to do. The aim of seeing whether people change their basic personalities ‚ moralities ‚ values when subjected to an external hostile environment has been successfully proven. My honest opinion is that ‚ at that time in 1971 ‚ it was rational enough to think about going out of the way to get an answer to a particular
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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 Stanford prison experiment was organized by three psychologists from Stanford University with a purpose is to observe the behavior between guards and prisoners in a simulated environment‚ and whether or not a prison environment aided in rehabilitating inmates‚ or increased the possibility of violent behavior. Formal hypotheses were developed describing that an assignment to either role of prisoner or guard would result in significantly different reactions on behavioral measures of interaction
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