An Ethical Analysis of the Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford Prison Experiment‚ although very fascinating and revealing of human nature‚ raises ethical questions regarding the methods used by Zimbardo and his research team. Although it is important from a research standpoint to be able to conduct experiments that will provide real‚ unmolested data‚ there must be a line that defines when research or an experiment becomes unethical‚ whether wholly or partially – research should not go on simply
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The Stanford Prison Experiment conducted in 1971 by Dr. Philip Zimbardo would not be able to be conducted these days. When conducting an experiment with humans there are many ethical guidelines that are to be followed. The rights and well being of the participants must be weighed against the study’s value to science. The people always come first‚ and research second. This was not the case in Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s experiment. I found that there were many ethical considerations
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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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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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Andrew McClarren 12/1/12 Stanford Prison Study Paper The Stanford Prison Study was a very eye opening experiment because it was performed in 1971‚ before modern American Psychological Association guidelines were implemented. As young adults we’ve never seen anything like this experiment before. The power of this situation was exceptionally strong‚ especially to us. In the study‚ how easily normal students could be transformed into either a satanic guard or a submissive prisoner was astonishing
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David Irias Psychology 101 Stanford experiment 4-13-2015 The research experiment was conducted in 1971 by Phillip Zimbardo and some of his colleagues. They would build a mock prison with fake guards‚ fake prisoners‚ even a fake warden; all of this being conducted in a fake jail house where Phillip and his colleagues would observe everything from afar. The participants were chosen from a group of volunteers that had no criminal background‚ had no psychological issues‚ and had no extreme medical conditions
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The Stanford prison experiment was similar to the Milgram experiment because both of the experiments focused on the responses of people when there are underneath authority. Zimbardo was interested in what would happen when you would put good people in an evil place. He also focused on if the situation out of the institution can control your behavior or does your attitude and values will overcome the situation from the negative environment. For Zimbardo negative environment‚ he had created a mock
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were not strong and can easily be affected by external factor which led to an “different” behavior. These factor can be culture‚ social norms‚ ethics of a society‚ religious inclination‚ coercion‚ and human influence by authority. The milgram experiment showed that our behaviors can be drastically impacted by higher-level authority factor. Several test subjects were given the authority to shock a subject when answering a question incorrectly‚ under the supervision of a “professional doctor”. Over
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The Standford Prison Experiment Introduction Professor Philip Zimbardo led a team of researchers in conducting an experiment on prison life at Standford University in 1971. Zimbardo wanted to test his hypothesis that it was the prisoners and guards inherent personality trait that leads to abusive and violent behavior in the prisons. Twenty-four predominately white male middle class men agreed to participate in a 7-14 day experiment in return for $15.00 a day‚ the equivalent of approximately $90
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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 known for other two works:The Time Paradox and The Time Cure. I´ll try to explain in the simplest way I can this experiment. Zimbardo
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