The article tried to address that the prison guards and convict would tend to slip into predefined roles, behaving in way that they thought was required rather than using their own judgment and morals. It addresses what happened when all of the individuality and dignity was stripped away from a human, and their life was completely controlled. It addresses that the dehumanization and loosing of social and moral values can happen to guards immerse in such situation.
The hypothesis is that “if man could survive the horrors of prison life he must surely be a creature who could withstand anything”.
To conduct the Stanford Prison Experiment, Zimbardo constructed a mock correctional facility in the basement of Stanford University.
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The Palo Alto Police had agreed to help with the experiment. As if they were real-life suspects, the prisoners were read their rights and had their mug shots and fingerprints taken. After being stripped, searched and de-loused, they were taken into the cells that would be their homes for the next two weeks.
Zimbardo, acting as a prison warden, would be able to observe and make notes about what happened during the course of the study.
The Stanford Prison Experiment degenerated very quickly and the dark and inhuman side of human nature became apparent very quickly.
The prisoners began to suffer a wide array of humiliations and punishments at the hands of the guards, and many began to show signs of mental and emotional distress.
On the second day of the experiment, the prisoners organized a mass revolt and riot, as a protest about the conditions. Guards worked extra hours and devised a strategy to break up and put down the riot, using fire-extinguishers.
No prompt for this action was given by Zimbardo; the guards used their own initiative to formulate the …show more content…
Surprisingly, his fellow inmates viewed him as a troublemaker rather than a fellow victim trying to help them.
When the inmates were informed that, if the rest of their prisoners gave up their blankets, he would be released from solitary confinement, all but one refused to give up their blanket.
The Stanford Prison Experiment carried on for six days until an outsider, Christina Maslach, a graduate student who would later become Zimbardo's wife, was brought in to interview guards and prisoners and was shocked by the scenes that she was witnessing.
Zimbardo terminated the experiment early and noted that out of over 50 external visitors, this lady was the only one to raise concerns about what was happening.
Zimbardo believed that the experiment showed how the individual personalities of people could be swamped when they were given positions of authority.
Zimbardo has acknowledged that some guards did try to change the system. He later investigated the topic about "heroes" - those who do not succumb to the
The hypothesis is that “if man could survive the horrors of prison life he must surely be a creature who could withstand anything”.
To conduct the Stanford Prison Experiment, Zimbardo constructed a mock correctional facility in the basement of Stanford University.
Adverts were placed …show more content…
The Palo Alto Police had agreed to help with the experiment. As if they were real-life suspects, the prisoners were read their rights and had their mug shots and fingerprints taken. After being stripped, searched and de-loused, they were taken into the cells that would be their homes for the next two weeks.
Zimbardo, acting as a prison warden, would be able to observe and make notes about what happened during the course of the study.
The Stanford Prison Experiment degenerated very quickly and the dark and inhuman side of human nature became apparent very quickly.
The prisoners began to suffer a wide array of humiliations and punishments at the hands of the guards, and many began to show signs of mental and emotional distress.
On the second day of the experiment, the prisoners organized a mass revolt and riot, as a protest about the conditions. Guards worked extra hours and devised a strategy to break up and put down the riot, using fire-extinguishers.
No prompt for this action was given by Zimbardo; the guards used their own initiative to formulate the …show more content…
Surprisingly, his fellow inmates viewed him as a troublemaker rather than a fellow victim trying to help them.
When the inmates were informed that, if the rest of their prisoners gave up their blankets, he would be released from solitary confinement, all but one refused to give up their blanket.
The Stanford Prison Experiment carried on for six days until an outsider, Christina Maslach, a graduate student who would later become Zimbardo's wife, was brought in to interview guards and prisoners and was shocked by the scenes that she was witnessing.
Zimbardo terminated the experiment early and noted that out of over 50 external visitors, this lady was the only one to raise concerns about what was happening.
Zimbardo believed that the experiment showed how the individual personalities of people could be swamped when they were given positions of authority.
Zimbardo has acknowledged that some guards did try to change the system. He later investigated the topic about "heroes" - those who do not succumb to the