The Zimbardo prison experiment was a study of human responses to captivity‚ dehumanization and its effects on the behavior on authority figures and inmates in prison situations. Conducted in 1971 the experiment was led by Phlilip Zimbardo. Volunteer College students played the roles of both guards and prisoners living in a simulated prison setting in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. Philip Zimbardo and his team aimed to demonstrate the situational rather than the dispositional causes
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“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally… [or who] does not partake of society is either a beast or a god‚” (Aristotle‚ c. 328 BCE.) Aristotle may have been the first person to articulate the basic principles of social psychology. Elliot Aronson‚ not the first to write about them‚ but perhaps a modern Aristotle in his teaching‚ writing‚ and research‚ wrote a book titled The Social Animal. In it‚ with an emphasis on conformity‚ he explains
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"The Education of a Torturer" is an account of experiments that has similar results to that of Milgram’s obedience experimentsthat were performed in 1963. Though both experiments vary drastically‚ both have one grim outcome‚ that is that‚ "it is ordinary people‚ not psychopaths‚ who become the Eichmanns of history." The Stanford experiment was performed by psychologists Craig Haney‚ W. Curtis Banks‚ and Philip Zimbardo. Their goal was to find out if ordinary people could become abusive if given
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bad) people can do bad‚ indeed evil things and that this can be explained by the situation in which the acts took place. In 1971 Zimbardo conducted the "Stanford prison experiment" in which students enacted the roles of prison guards and prisoners - the results so traumatised Zimbardo that supposedly he never gave the experiment the complete write-up he intended to. Many years later he acted as an expert witness for the defense of one of the soldiers in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. It was
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The study needs to be scientifically valid‚ however the rights of the participant need to be met. Deception is an ethical issue that arises in many studies as participants tend to be deceived in order to obtain more scientifically valid results. Milgram is a great example of this as he used deception more than once to get his results. Participants were told the study was based on memory and that the colleague was a participant. As well as this‚ they believed that the person was receiving an electric
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from an authority figure. A key study that has looked into research is one carried out by Milgrams in 1963. The aim of the experiment was investigate whether ordinary people will obey a legitimate authority figure even when required to injure an innocent person. Milgrams recruited 40 male participants by advertising for volunteers to take part in his study. Each participant would be paid $4.50. The experiment consisted of one ‘real’ participant and two confederates – the experimenter‚ who would be
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example‚ a person may be quiet by nature‚ but in the right situation‚ may be very outgoing. 2. The fundamental attribution error is that we tend to overestimate a person’s natural personality and underestimate the position that they’re in. 1. An experiment with a set-up “mean or friendly” girl showed that we see behavior as being determined by one’s personality‚ not by the situation. 2. When we view others‚ it’s easy to fall into the fundamental attribution error trap. Studies show that when people
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if Hitler asked You to Electrocute a Stranger would you? In the beginning‚ Stanley Milgram was worried about the Nazi problem. He doesn’t worry much about the Nazis anymore. He worries about you and me‚ and‚ perhaps‚ himself a little bit too. Stanley Milgram is a social psychologist‚ and when he began his career at Yale University in 1960 he had a plan to prove‚ scientifically‚ that Germans Philip Meyer © Philip Meyer. Originally published in Esquire‚ February 1970. artwork © Michael Leonard
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The Stanford County Prison experiment by Zimbardo (1971) supports Milgram’s study. Zimbardo (1973) experiment took place in a pretend prison house which was created in the basement of Stanford University. This was to investigate the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner/prison guard. Participants in both studies had a difficult time ending the experiment. The participants felt they did not want to appear inconsistent or leave the experiment. Participant’s behaviour was in control by social/professional
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The Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment Domestic Violence has been an integrated part of many family units throughout history. Until the mid 1980 ’s‚ domestic violence was thought to be the families problem‚ a dirty little secret that needed to be dealt with inside the family circle. This mind set changed when a notable study was done in the Minneapolis Minnesota area in the 1980 ’s. This study not only impacted the actual area it was conducted in‚ but the way domestic violence offenders
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