The purpose of the study done by Craig Haney‚ Curtis Banks‚ and Phillip Zambardo at Stanford University was to investigate the cause of aggression and hostility found in prison environments. The state of the prison system has long been explained away by the idea that "the state of the social institution of prison is due to the "nature" of the people who administrate it‚ or the "nature" of the people who populate is‚ or both" (Haney‚ Banks and Zimbardo‚ 1973‚ p. 2). According to the study‚ there was
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far as to inflict life-threatening physical pain on others - when instructed to do so by someone posing as a doctor. Philip Zimbardo‚ in his iconic "Stanford prison experiment"‚ demonstrated that kind‚ law-abiding‚ mentally stable individuals demonstrated sadistic‚ cruel and ruthless behaviour when given a position of authority in a simulated prison setting. In both cases‚ the situations elicited behaviour that was not inherent to the individuals’ existing personalities. This does not mean
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would go in hurting another human when told to do so by the researcher in charge. Sometimes subjects gave what was supposed to be a potentially lethal jolt of electricity when told to by the researcher. The lesson that can be gained from this experiment is that people will follow directions given by superiors even if they think it could cause injury or death. We
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Model of Extraordinary Human Evil." Perpetrators of Genocide: an Explanatory Model of Extraordinary Human Evil. 1st ed. Vol. 1. Spokane‚ WA: Gonzaga University Institute for Action Against Hate‚ 2002. 18-21. Print. Zimbardo‚ Phillip. “The Stanford Prison Experiment.” Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum: Brief Edition. 3rd ed. Eds. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. New York: Pearson‚ 2009. 233-44.
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were Milgram and Zimbardo’s findings? In Milgram’s initial obedience experiments he found all of the participants administered shocks to the confederate up to the 300-volts while 26 of the initial 40 participants administered fatal electric shocks. When he repeated the experiment he found nearly 70% of participants would administer a fatal shock if instructed by an authority figure to do so. In the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ Zimbardo found both the student guards and student prisoners assumed their
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Nature vs Nurture Human behavior is based upon Nurture‚ how you’re taught or learn as you go. I don’t believe anyone is born a certain way. I believe you’re taught how to act/behave as you go/grow. People are affected by others and how they see them behave which makes them think they should behave that way too. Even if someone else doesn’t think someone should behave that way it’s what you learned to do based on your surroundings. If someone has taught you to always be afraid‚ whether it’s fear
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Philip Zimbardo and Stanley Milgram conducted controversial experiments that had to deal with obedience. Zimbardo conducted an experiment in a mock prison that showed the roles of the guards and prisoners. Milgram conducted an experiment that tested how much pain a teacher would inflict on someone else at the command of an experimenter. The experiments that they conducted have been called wrong and unethical. Although the experiments vary from each other‚ they both changed the way the world looks
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position. Providing an answer to this question can be determined by the analysis of Simon’s experiences and findings of experimenters. Philip Zimbardo and Stanley Milgram’s experiments demonstrate the relationship and effects that authority has on subjects. In “The Perils of Obedience”‚ Milgram applies his analysis of his experiments showing
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illustrate the difficulties with this issue. Examples from the book that had difficulties with ethics include the Milgram experiment‚ the Stanford Prison experiment‚ and the syphilis experiment. These experiments were done in the name of science but had a lasting impact on the participants. In the listed examples‚ the institutions that sponsored these experiments were not looking to harm the participants‚ they were simply trying to understand the social world around them; however‚ in every
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MGMT1001 s1 2013 – ‘Spot Collection’ Bring to tutorials week beginning 29 April 2013 Topic 7: Power and Conflicts Textbook question: Which power bases lie with the individual? Which are derived from the organisation? (max. 200 words) Power bases that lie with the individual include expert power‚ which is the power gained because of the ability of someone with expert knowledge in a field. Another one is the referent power‚ which is the power that gained due
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