Bibliography: • Zimbardo‚ P. G. (2007). The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how good people turn evil. New York: Random House. [See also LuciferEffect.com] • Schwartz‚ J. (May 6‚ 2004). Simulated prison in ’71 showed a fine line between ’normal ’ and ’monster. ’ New York Times‚ p. A20. • Zimbardo‚ P. G. (2004). A situationist perspective on the psychology of evil: Understanding how good people are transformed into perpetrators (pp. 21-50). In A. G. Miller (Ed.)‚ The social psychology of good and evil
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(Lopata‚ 1991). For example‚ men are expected to be breadwinners of the household and mothers main focus is to take care of the kids. Over the past decades‚ psychologists have conducted experiments on how the roles we play to influence the way we behavior daily.
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Stanly Milgram’s and Philip Zimbardo’s had similar results‚ both showing how humans obey authority. Milgram studied obedient on authority. Zimbardo studied why guards and prisoner play that role in prison. The Milgram and Zimbardo experiments showed how humans are so obedient that we are capable of hurting innocent people if ordered to do so. The study of obedience‚ conducted by Milgram‚ was to test how the subject would obey when ordered by the experimenter to adminater a shock to another human
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The experiment involved using university students with no previous criminal record or any debilitating mental illnesses as subjects. Zimbardo then assigned to each subject a role at random. Half of the subjects were given the role of guard and the other half would be the prisoners. The guards were given absolute control and power over the prisoner’s lives for the duration for the experiment
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intrigued by the idea. Either way it was stated something like this‚ “Male college students needed for psychological study of prison life. $ 15 per day for 1-2 weeks.” ( Ratnesar 1). Zimbardo and his team selected 24 men‚ to participate in this study half of the men would randomly be selected to be prisoners and half of the men would be prison guards. The guards were given very specific directions to not harm the individuals‚ yet their intent was to make them feel powerless and ashamed. The guards were
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many aspects of life involve standing up for what you believe in‚ while going against the laws of what you have to follow‚ even though the civil people don’t have any patience for any excuses. In the play Antigone by Sophicles‚ and the movie A Few Good Men‚ by Aaron Sorkin‚ Antigone‚ Dawson and Downy stand up for what they think is right at that moment‚ and go against the laws they were to follow. The Greek Tragic Hero Antigone is characterized as a person with great honor and has a conflict
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THE STANFORD EXPERİMENT What happens when you put good people in an evil place? How the environment affect behaviours ‚ attitudes or beliefs of people? Philip Zimbardo was interested in this questions. Zimvardo choose a prison enviroment as the evil place. Zimbardo prepare the basement of Stanford University Psychlogy Department like a prison to avoid security problems. All of the conditions in basement change for experiment such as guards uniform ‚ prisoners overalls‚ grates ‚ dark cell etc.Zimbardo
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Philip G. Zimbardo‚ under the right variation of circumstances one may be compelled to push the criminal even if he/she originally felt that the act was immoral (Asch 306-313) (Zimbardo 344-355). Taking a close look at these experiments and real world examples such as Abu Ghrab prison along with
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Zimbardo Research Paper Leslie Massey PSYCH/620 01/22/2015 Professor Sharon McNelly Zimbardo Research Paper The Stanford Prison Experiment was a study conducted in 1971 by Dr. Phillip Zimbardo. According to Dr. Steve Taylor (2007)‚ “It’s probably the best known psychological study of all time.” (Classic Studies in Psychology‚ 2007). Zimbardo stated that the point was to see what would happen if he put “really good people in a bad place” (Dr. Zimbardo‚ 2007). He did this during a time
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David Neverdon Zimbardo Experiment Essay Grand Canyon University Phillip K. Zimbardo‚ who is a professor of psychology at Stanford University‚ directed the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ also known as the Zimbardo Experiment. The goal of the Zimbardo experiment was to research how willing human beings would imitate to the characters of correctional officers and inmates in an acting role that replicated life behind bars. But what really happens when you remove the freedoms of human beings and
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