The Stanford Prison Experiment harbored interest concerning the psychological effects that would be exhibited from normal people when put into simulation prison. Stanford Prison experiment had elements of social structure of a real-life prison. Zimbardo himself held “ultimate” master status as the warden. Participants were selected by Zimbardo for the experiment. Participants held achieved - master status of prison guards and another group of male students were portraying inmates in the study
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This study was conducted by Professor Phillip Zimbardo at Stanford University in 1971. Zimbardo wanted to find out if a situation can control the person or can an individual’s beliefs‚ attitude and values would allow one to rise above their current situation. He wanted to look more in-depth in the behavioral and sociological consequences in the roles of the guard and prisoner. Also‚ he wanted to find out why and how social situations can overwhelm people. In order to find study subjects‚ Zimbardo
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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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psychological issues. With a pay of $15/a day‚ he divided the candidates‚ 9 guards and 9 prisoners. He constructed the basement floor at Stanford into a correctional facility taking the doors off hinges and replacing them with steel door with bars and cell numbers. Each prisoner was stripped and searched and sprayed‚ the same way as if they were going to a real prison. Each prisoner was given robes to wear with their own prisoner number on the back and on the front‚ and they could only go by prisoner
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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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PSY-362 Social Psychology and Cultural Applications Stanford Prison Experiment Directions: Answer each of the questions below with a minimum of 200-words. Use scholarly research to support your answers. Include APA in-text citations in your answers where necessary and list your reference at the end of the document. 1. Do you think that kids from an urban working-class environment would have broken down emotionally in the same way as did the middle-class prisoners? Why? What do you suppose the outcome
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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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the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ Philip Zimbardo states people change with they are given “power without oversight” (Zimbardo‚ The Psychology of Evil‚ TedTalk). Though the students were considered “good apples‚” the combination of situation and the system caused the guards to lose their identities and to abuse their power in inhumane ways. The results of the experiment were derived many observations and conclusions about the subjects; however‚ Zimbardo’s switch between running the experiment
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Can good‚ moral‚ and virtuous people be pushed to do bad things? This article seeks to compare an experiment done in 1971 to a real life military situation during wartime. The article also tries to link the experiment to another horrible act done by someone suffering from various mental illnesses with extremely mixed results. Is there a correlation between these three events as far as the mental states of the participants? The article starts off telling the story of Sergeant John M Russell taking
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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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