Stanford Prison Experiment Following the American Psychological Associations guidelines Zachary Hudson Waterford District High School Abstract The Stanford prison experiment‚ an unethical experiment created to study human nature in the most hellish of environments. Regular students were deceived into applying for the experiment itself and later regretted the choice because of the events that occurred during the short time that experiment ran in. The experiment ran and quickly
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way? The Stanford Prison Experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. This experiment was led by a psychology professor named Philip Zimbardo‚ he had the help of a team of researchers. The purpose of this particular experiment was to induce disorientation‚ depersonalization‚ and DE individualization in the participants. After a period of time behind bars everyone would act out of character. Psychology professor‚ Philip Zimbardo‚ and his team of researchers
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Philip Zimbardo‚ born in 1933 in New York (USA) is a psychologist and investigator‚ who focus in social psychology. His best known work is the Stanford´s Prison experiment‚ searching for an explanation for the violence in the USA prisons. He wanted to know if this behaviour is due to the personalities of the guards (i.e. dispositional) or due to the prison environment and structure (i.e. situational). He later gave class in some of the best universities of the world; Yale‚ NYU and Columbia. His also
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The Stanford Prison Experiment The stanford prison experiment is one of the infamous experiments conducted in the history of psychology. The experiment was conducted at Stanford University in August‚ 1971 by a team of researchers led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. The basic premise was to find out and determine what happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil‚ or does evil triumph? Does the system that we inhabit and are a part of start to control our
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STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT One of the most interesting studies made in history was led by Philip Zimbardo‚ a psychologist and a former classmate of Stanley Milgram (who was famous for his Milgram experiment). He sought to expand on Milgram’s experiment about impacts of situational variables on human behavior by simulating a prison environment‚ in which volunteering students were randomly assigned as prisoners or prison guards. Many controversies have been elicited from this experiment‚ and it was with
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Summary The Stanford Prison was an experiment to study the psychological effects and reactions of students pretending to be prisoners and guards. This study was conducted in 1971 and although it was suppose to have duration of 2 weeks‚ it finished after just 6 days. The experiment required 24 male students for the role-play and paid $15‚00 per day. Several volunteers answered to an ad on a newspaper and were selected after being interviewed. They were all healthy and there were no psychological
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The stanford prison experiment Assignment #3 Watch the video on the Zimbardo Stanford Prison Experiment available in the Webliography (Quiet Rage http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/quiet-rage-the-stanford-prison-experiment/). In your Threaded Discussion‚ worth 20 pts‚ post your thoughts regarding the following discussion questions excerpted from Zimbardo: 1) Was it ethical to do this study? Was it right to trade the suffering experienced by participants for the knowledge gained by the research
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The Stanford Prison Experiment‚ conducted by Philip G. Zimbardo‚ was performed to see the process that takes place where guards and prisoners "learn" to become authoritarian guards and compliant prisoners. (Zimbardo‚ 732). The prisoners and guards had many burdens of disobedience. In the beginning of the experiment‚ the "prisoners" were stripped of everything and emotionally torn down for being "disobedient". They were dehumanized in every way. They couldn’t speak to another unless they called
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Role Playing and its Toll In “The Stanford Prison Experiment‚” psychologist Philip G. Zimbardo describes his study of how placing average‚ male‚ college students in a prison like environment proved that their roles dehumanized them as individuals by radically changing their perceptions and behaviors. Before the experiment‚ the subjects were “emotionally stable‚ physically healthy‚ mature‚ law-abiding citizens” (734). With the flip of a coin ten men were chosen to be prisoners and eleven men
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Phillip Zimbardo. A Pirandellian Prison. New York Times Magazine‚ 4/8/73 The quiet of a summer morning in Palo Alto‚ California was shattered by a screeching squad car siren as police swept through the city picking up college students in a surprise mass arrest. Each suspect was charged with a felony‚ warned of his constitutional rights‚ spread-eagled against the car‚ searched‚ handcuffed and carted off in the back seat of the squad car to the police station for booking. After fingerprinting
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