Explain the impact of the Stanford prison experiment on psychology and behaviour. The Stanford prison experiment ‚led by professor Philip Zimbardo‚ was aimed at seeing the effect on people on becoming prisoners or prison guards. The idea was to see what happens to people when they are put in relatively ‘evil’ places. Do the people themselves become evil or is there no net effect? The results indicated that in fact people adapt to their role exceptionally well. It was observed that the prison guards
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Distribution Channels of Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care Products in Chinese Economic Transition -- A Case Study Don Y. Leea ‚ Gangling Chaob and Weiling Yec aHong Kong Polytechnic University‚ Hong Kong b‚cShanghai University of Finance and Economic‚ China Address for Correspondence: Don Y. Lee PhD Associate Professor of Marketing Department of Business Studie Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hung Hom‚ Kowloon Hong Kong Special Administrative Region China Telephone: 852-2766-7119 Facsimile:
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Case 4: Philips versus Matsushita: A New Century‚ a New Round Steve Kotarski MGT380 – Dr. Tang Case Synopsis Two major competitors in the global consumer electronics industry‚ Philips of the Netherlands and Matsushita of Japan‚ both have extensive histories that can be traced back more than a century. They have each followed different strategies and have had significant capabilities and downfalls along the way. In general‚ Philips built its tenured success on a portfolio of responsive
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Stanford Prison Experiment In discussions of the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Philip G. Zimbardo in 1970‚ one controversial issue has been whether or not the experiment should have ever been attempted. On the one hand‚ Dr. Zimbardo and his colleagues argued that the experiment gave them a deeper understanding of human suffering and a greater empathy for their fellow man (Ratnesar 2011). On the other hand‚ one of the former guards contended that the experiment made him more hostile and
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good people can do bad things and where bad people can do good things. According to Philip Zimbardo‚ psychologist and a professor at Stanford University‚ the line between bad and good isn’t fixed but it is movable and
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David Icke‚ an author‚ conspiracy theorist‚ and former football player and sportscaster once said “The human race is a herd. Here we are‚ unique‚ eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential‚ and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking‚ unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality‚ we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.” Here‚ Icke is saying that humans often become attached to groups. They do not
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The Stanford Experiment is a study of experimental psychology conducted by Philip Zimbardo in 1971 on the effects of the prison situation. It was created with students playing the roles of guards and prisoners. It was intended to study the behavior of ordinary people in such a context and effect was to show that this was the situation rather that the personality of the participants who was at the origin of behaviours sometimes opposite the values professed by participants before the start of the
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In 1971‚ Philip Zimbardo conducted one of the most infamous experiments known to this day as the Stanford Prison Experiment. Its objective was to understand the effects prisons can have on human behaviour. Zimbardo‚ together with his research team hypothesized that in a prison environment‚ the personality traits that are inherent in a person are chiefly responsible for abusive behaviour. His research participants were twenty-four male college students who attended Stanford University. They were interviewed
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behavior‚ or culture? Psychologists 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
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