values - going so 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
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Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam assess this exact debate in the article “Why Not Everyone Is A Torturer”‚ and thus attempt to understand the background of war crimes and torture. In addition to this discussion‚ Philip G. Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment depicts similar outcomes‚ which were subsequently endorsed by the two psychologists. Nearly everyone has the capacity to commit acts of evil‚ given the right conditions‚ but what keeps a minority of people in check even under extremely stressful
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An Ethical Analysis of the Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford Prison Experiment‚ although very fascinating and revealing of human nature‚ raises ethical questions regarding the methods used by Zimbardo and his research team. Although it is important from a research standpoint to be able to conduct experiments that will provide real‚ unmolested data‚ there must be a line that defines when research or an experiment becomes unethical‚ whether wholly or partially – research should not go on simply
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Introduction In our assignment‚ we will discuss leadership‚ group and individual decision making and we will also use case material/experiments to support these areas. We decided to focus in on two leadership’s styles‚ autocratic focusing on Steve Jobs and democratic focusing on Carlos Ghosn‚ we will make reference to individual and group decisions that are influenced by each type of leadership. In our report we will examine variables including culture‚ emotion‚ values and ethics in the individual
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In present times‚ the beauty of science has been distorted from the art of human due to the introduction of human experiments. Human experiment is defined as the study of human beings as an experimental subject. Since olden days‚ humans have been used as test subjects for a variety of experiments. The main objectives of these experiments being carried out are to develop new ideas and cures for the maintenance of lives of humans. According to Nitze (no date)‚” We slow the progress of science today
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Contesting the “nature” of Conformity: What Milgram and Zimbardo’s Studies Really Show. From the 1960’s to the 1970’s understanding of the psychology of tyranny is dominated by classical studies. Two such studies include Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment and Milgram’s research on obedience to authority. This research has revealed that many times people obey inactively and unthinkably to both roles that authorities offer as well as orders given to them. However‚ recently‚ this belief has recently
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How groups can influence people in positive and negative ways People have many different roles in life‚ these roles serve many different purposes. It is in these roles we find we belong to different groups this makes up our social identity. It is these groups that can have negative or positive effect on ourselves. People can be part of the ’in-group ’ or the ’out-group ’. The ’in-group ’ being people who belong to the group which we consider we also belong to. The ’out-group ’ being people
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put in a certain situation‚ they would always do the right thing no matter the circumstances. However‚ social experiments such as the Good Samaritan Experiment (Darley and Batson‚1973)‚ the Milgram Shock Experiment (1963)‚ and the Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo‚1973) give psychologists results that say otherwise. The majority of the unknowing participants in these three experiments showed a surprising lack of compassion for a fellow human who (as far as the participant knew) was in pain or
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Emeritus Philip Zimbardo biography‚ watched videos of his lectures and beginning to read his award-winning book “The Lucifer Effect”. I feel that he shows bias towards society‚ the environment‚ and situation‚ he speaks about how people are not born evil or bad‚ that society‚ how a person up-brining or environment and the situation are to blame‚ although a person those bear some responsibility‚ Zimbardo makes it clear that it is not the individual fault. In “The Lucifer Effect” Zimbardo speaks about
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While reviewing the Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo‚ 2012)‚ I had to stop reading to wipe my eyes dry. As a human being with compassion or other people‚ I cannot fathom how something like this was even allowed to go on for 6 days. The torture that these students were allowed to endure was atrocious. I see nothing ethical about conducting a study like this due to the fact that there are real prisons with real prisoners that could have been interviewed and studied rather than traumatizing people
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