Philip Zimbardo

An Unexpected Change The premise of the Stanford Prison was to determine the relationships between guards and prisoners. These conditions were situational and the researchers wanted to study the variables on human behaviors in a prison environment. As many have concluded, the experiment did not go as anticipated, and many questions have arisen as to what went wrong and if the experiment itself was ethical. This purpose of this paper is to understand the true intent of the experiment, examine…

John F. Kennedy once said, “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” Once one suppresses freedom, the person’s true identity begins to disappear. Conformity causes lack of individuality, as shown through cults; the Stanford Prison Experiment; and normative social influence, informational social influence, and the social impact theory. The word “cult” refers to a group of people with religious tendencies, beliefs, or just practices in general that some may describe as…

Abusive Authority: Prison Guards and Pimps Cana Rainwater Charleston Southern University Abusive Authority: Prison Guards and Pimps In 1971, a psychologist by the name of Philip Zimbardo created a “prison” in the basement of a psychology building to study the behavioral and psychological consequences of becoming a prisoner or a prison guard; the results were unexpected. Participants in the program showed evidence of psychological changes within thirty-six hours, and the experiment…

The Iraqi prison twenty miles away from Baghdad Abu Ghraib is now infamous for maltreatment. It is unknown how many people the prison held. The vast majority of prisoners were civilians picked up by the military at traffic stops. They were undocumented in the prison or placed under an ambiguous category of "common criminals" or those suspected of "crimes against the coalition". Most were not meant to be in Abu Ghraib, but since many prisoners were undocumented, this went overlooked as did the…

The general topic that the article on the Stanford Prison Experiment by Craig Haney, Curtis Banks and Philip Zimbardo addresses is prison life and the specific roles that prisoners and jailers quickly undertake. The purpose of this research is to try to decipher what makes both prisoners and guards act the way they do. Some believe that violence in prison is caused by the violent nature of the prisoners, others believe that what makes prison violent is the actions of the guards and the brutal…

People all over the world tend to toss their morals aside in order to conform to the influences of society or a higher superior. However, people below the chain of authority, especially the youth, struggle the most in attempt to triumph over these types of situations. Although conformity often helps society function correctly, there becomes a problem when a person’s identity becomes too infatuated within a higher authority that they disregard their own personal morals. So why in a society…

Everyone has there own opinion on different things based on their own life experiences. We each view things differently as far as what we think is right or wrong, and some people may or may not agree. For me, the book Hard Measures shows us the things people will do in order to get what they want. In The Lucifer Effect I believe this book shows us what we will do when we are given power and privilege, it also helps us get a better understanding of why people do what they do. These two books as…

though at the moment it is mentioned as a study and not a solution. It plants the seed of curiosity in the readers mind that has them wonder if this really works or not. The biggest, and by far the most shocking research mentioned was performed by Zimbardo in the 1970’s. These experiments took normal students and put them in a scenario where there would be either a guard or a prisoner. What was an innocent test on a persons’ role and their ability for compassion turned into a living nightmare…

Obedience to Authority Experiment In 1963 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram held an experiment to test the relationship between obedience to authority and the personal conscience. Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment was one of the many experiments that caused the gathering of the APA, because of its lack of ethics and an analysis of the experiment provides information that could justify for the genocide acts of World War II. The experiment included 40 male participants who drew straws…

. Ethical Dilemmas Name- Ravi Ranjan Roll No- 2015233 Section- D A PRISON CELL UPGRADE With the change in the living style of common man, we also observed the change in the condition of prisoners in jail. Prisoner cell these days consists of hygienic kitchen, cross ventilation chambers, large sitting area, etc. Whether prison cell upgrade is ethical or not is totally depends upon the nature of crime the prisoner did. Based on the level of crime, prisoner should be…