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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Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment: a Lesson in the Power of Situation January 17‚ 2012 � This is a critique of an article published in Chronicle of Higher Education‚ (v53 n30 pB6 Mar. 30‚ 2007) on "Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment: a Lesson in the Power of Situation" by Philip G. Zimbardo. This article discusses issues related to how good people can turn bad. SUMMARY In this article‚ Zimbardo looks at his previous social experiment on physical abuse in prison and discusses the
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Firstly‚ while some may say that individual agency prevails in decision-making‚ Berger refuses optimism and feels that “possibilities do little to change the total efficacy of the system” when in general‚ “society penetrates the insides of our consciousness”. I agree with Berger that although the “guardians of tradition”‚ such as my family‚ friends and teachers‚ were influential in ensuring that my decisions are aligned to the “established rules”‚ they in fact need not exert much pressure on me.
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do evil things‚ and that good people will dominate over a bad situation‚ in fact‚ one way to look at the Stanford Prison study is that if you put good people in an evil place‚ and we saw who won‚ well the sad message is in this case is that the evil place won over the good people.” (The Stanford Prison Experiment). The main similarity between Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment was that they both descended into darkness. Three similarities that prove this is imprisonment‚ separation
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participants in the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ how do you think you would react? If I was placed in this experiment‚ I think‚ would react differently whether I was a guard or a prisoner. If I was a guard I think conform more to the group influence because of the effect of having the power over someone else. I think that it would be easy to get caught up in having all the power in this experiment. However I think my attitude would be different If I was a prisoner in the experiment. If I was a prisoner
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The Stanford Prison experiment drew the attention of how adapting to a situation can make a person become someone else‚ leaving behind who they previously were. Social Psychologist‚ Philip G. Zimbardo‚ highlighted the presentation of classic psychological research on situational forces on human behaviour. Zimbardo debated that the situation is the core in creating individuals to act in ways they would have not acted before. The extent to how situational forces can explain evil acts by the individuals
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Dr Philip Zimbardo and a team of psychologists conducted an experiment of a mock prison in the basement of Stanford University. The experiment was set out to study the influence of social roles in human behavior. In our daily lives we are expected to fulfill the social expectations of our “roles”‚ our roles will have different expectations depending on the situations we are faced with. The psychologists designed an experiment to find out how much we are truly influenced by the social expectations
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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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are alone. Philip Zimbardo is a psychologist and a professor at Stanford University; he researches the cause of evil in people by doing a Stanford prison experiment. Zimbardo states about how evil can cause good people easily by the peers that they are surrounded by and the culture and traditional way changes can affect people
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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 became
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