Zimbardo Research Paper Christina Parker PSYCH 620 October 21‚ 2013 Stacy Hernandez Zimbardo Research Paper Dr. Zimbardo conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) in 1971‚ but the data from that project is as useful in today’s society as it was then. The question now is what impact the study had on social psychology‚ the value of the study‚ the study’s relevance to contemporary world issues‚ the value of the study to humanity as a whole‚ problems and ethical concerns created by the study
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The age old question of how evil manifests itself in today’s society is still widely unanswered‚ and is still debated in many social and biological sciences. In modern times we seem to see evil a lot more‚ the news is filled with tragedies. We often view the source of evil as a murderer‚ con artist‚ or someone who commits fraud. However‚ what if there was evil inside of all of us? The evaluation of ourselves in terms of evilness starts with psychological experiments that test the theory that‚ when
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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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individual behaviour. Stanley Milgram famously demonstrated that people are willing to compromise their personal 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
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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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Sometimes we wonder why people do things. Is it because they were forced to? Maybe they were pressured into it‚ or maybe they thought it was the right thing to do. In the book The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo he studies the psychological motives of humans and situational personalities. Zimbardo produced an experiment called the “Stanford prison experiment” which put one group of students as guards and another as the prisoners. The main point of the experiment was to watch the prisoners and
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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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Put in the right circumstances‚ every human being has the potential to be a sadist. In "The Stanford Prison Experiment"‚ Phillip G. Zimbardo examines how easily people can slip into roles and become sadistic to the people around them‚ even going so far as to develop a sense of supremacy. He does this by explaining the results of his experiment that he created to understand more about the effects that imprisonment has on prisoners‚ and how a prison environment affects the guards who work there. In
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When tragic events occur‚ society often points to the people who carried out the crime itself. However‚ often times the orders may come from a superior authority‚ and the automatic override to be obedient kicks in. Especially in the military‚ obedience is a form of order and without it‚ there would be no organization or respect of one’s upper authorities. In Columbia Picture’s “A Few Good Men”‚ Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee‚ is a lawyer defending two men being accused of the murder of Private First Class
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role of psychology that shaped the jail policies. One of the event that changed the way people were treated in prisons for the last 25-30 years was the stanford prison experiment. Stanford experiment was conducted in 1973 by craig haney and Philip zimbardo. A group of healthy‚ normal college students were temporily but dramatically transformed in the course of six days spent in a prison like environment. Emotionally strong college students‚ they suffered acute psychological trauma and breakdowns
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