Human Behavior Depicted In The Film: Kitty Genovese

I was left speechless and in shock after watching the Human Behavior Experiment film. The thing that shocked me the most about this documentary is how people’s reactions change once they are with a group of people, even though they don’t think things are right they don’t stand up and say something they just conform because everyone else is. Like in the Kitty Genovese case people were just being bystanders when it came to her being chased and killed no one did anything till it was too late, or how the four boys just watched as their friend die later realizing they could have prevented it. In the McDonald’s incident, I understand that at the beginning of the call yes it was believable that it was a real cop, but once things started getting strange like when they told her to make the girl strip or do jumping jacks that is when something should have told her something wasn’t right. In the Stanford Prison Experiment the guards who weren’t actually real guards started treated the fake prisoners bad until they broke down emotionally and the guards …show more content…
I hate seeing people being mistreated. Yes they may have been prisoners that could have had very important information, but they were human beings being treated like dogs. The reason I see that this happened was because they were told to do whatever as long as they got the information they needed. Since I personally do not tolerate violence I would have not done those things, especially not humiliate them or hurt anyone. The soldiers did this because they thought it was the only way into getting the information out of the prisoners, indeed this wasn’t the right way to go. Many soldiers followed because they were afraid to speak up and say it was wrong. I personally would not have done the same thing because of the way I was taught, and I am not easily influenced by peer pressure. Although I was not in that situation so I wouldn’t really know how I would