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    The Stanford Prison Experiment During arrests the police use procedures that lead people to feel confused and fearful. In the case of the Stanford experiment when the prisoners were arrested a process of humiliation began. The twelve undergraduates selected to play the role of prisoners were fingerprinted‚ mug shots were taken; they were searched‚ stripped naked‚ deloused and their heads shaved. Then they were dressed in cheap smocks‚ with no underwear and had a small chain around one ankle.

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    Intro- name of the paper A team at Stanford University‚ led by Phillip Zimbardo‚ conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment to investigate causes of conflict between military guards and prisoners. Zimbardo and his team were seeking to observe the inherent personality traits of prisoners and guards and see if this was the chief cause of abusive behavior in these settings (Haney‚ Banks‚ and Zimbardo‚ 1973). This study is one that is well know and well-recognized. Zimbardo and his study are often discussed

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    Abstract:The Stanford experiment was performed by psychologists Craig Haney‚ W. CurtisBanks‚ and Philip Zimbardo. Their goal was to find out how humans deal with a position ofpower and a position of being powerless.. However‚ even though their experiment ended upwith great results‚ still‚ they were not able to finish it and the stanford prison experiment wasclosed after only 6 days. We reporformed the Stanford prison experiment that was done psychologists Craig. We broughtordinary college students

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    Psychology 270 - 03 Homework Assignment 1 Prison Experiment (100 Pts) Go to the following site:http://www.prisonexp.org/. Click on Begin SlideShow at the bottom of the page. Read through the article and watch the video in entirety. Respond to all questions below. 1. If you were a guard in this scenario‚ what type of guard would you have become? Why? 2. What prevented "good guards" from objecting to or countermanding the orders from “tough” or “bad guards”?

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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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    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 her article "The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism"

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    the Stanford Prison Experiment‚ Philip Zimbardo states people change with they are given “power without oversight” (Zimbardo‚ The Psychology of Evil‚ TedTalk). Though the students were considered “good apples‚” the combination of situation and the system caused the guards to lose their identities and to abuse their power in inhumane ways. The results of the experiment were derived many observations and conclusions about the subjects; however‚ Zimbardo’s switch between running the experiment

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    control[1]”) and homicide of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib become known to the public eye. The acts were committed by members of the United States Army along with members of the United States governmental agencies. As shown in the Taguba Report (“report on alleged abuse of prisoners by members of the 800th Military Police Brigade at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad[2])‚

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    The Abu Ghirab prison was the most horrific‚ brutal and dehumanizing thing I have even come across. The level of suffering the inmates experienced words cannot express how terrifying it is. There were male as well as female and even worst‚ children was in that dreadful place. They were treated worse than animals in my opinion‚ I cannot see in no one lives they should have to encounter such gruesome experience. The Stanford prison experiment was conducted on August 14th to 20th‚ 1971.The team of researchers

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    Abu Ghraib and Insaniyat Article by: Arshin Adib-Moghaddam “We have met the enemy‚ and he is us” Iraq is a different world than where we live in North America. Canadian values and culture of North America are vastly different from those of the Middle Eastern country that is the subject of an-article by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam titled Abu Gharib and Insaniyat. Following the terrorist attacks in New York in 2001 the differences between these two cultures seemed immense. The stories and images

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