Inhumane Experiments

1.) If you were the experimenter in charge, would you have done this study? Would you have terminated it earlier? Would you have conducted a follow-up study? Why or why not? How would you have changed any of these experiments? Or would you have not changed anything?
If I was the experimenter in charge I could of never have done this study as I found it very unethical. The reason I say this is because, in the movie they treated these prisoners very badly and would humiliate them any chance that they got. In my opinion this was not truly a study, this was an inhumane experiment as these people did nothing to be treated unfairly. One prisoner said it best, he had mentioned that this wasn’t a study, but a prison run by psychologists. I personally …show more content…
Also, I think that the “good guards” knew everyone would adjust differently to the way they carried out their roles. If anything had been objected by the “good guards” it may cause them to not only break character but cause unnecessary drama. Having any drama or tension between the guards could lead to the prisoners able to successfully rebel, tarnishing any results of the experiment. In both groups we had observed group conformity as both guards and prisoners adjusted to their roles. As the days went on though with the guards they had become more and more like a real prison guard, acting like this was their jobs. All the guards always had stayed together too without any issues, they had all been on the same page when controlling the prisoners in any fashion. Irving Janis’s ideas of “groupthink” relate to the guards as when they had been controlling the subjects in any fashion they all had made their decisions on the consensus of the group. Seeing how they had made all their decisions in that fashion, it left little room for guards to ever speak out against the group. Overall when making decisions based on the groups consensus, it can lead to poor decisions. Which it eventually did, as the guards degraded and …show more content…
The reason I believe this is because, usually people in the middle-class are more sheltered and some have maybe not had that many scary experiences in life. For example, I lived in a town named Hanover which in my opinion is very sheltered compared to some other towns as there is a very low crime rate. Not having any tough experiences going into prison would be a new world for some people, as we saw in the movie. I think that the urban working-class would have achieved better results due to the fact, they have to deal with extremely hard-working conditions and possibly and even struggling in their upbringing. Living in a tough area could even be an advantage along with the urban side as they are exposed to much more. I think overall the urban working class would be much sterner and put up more of a fight against the guards due to personality. I think that it would be the same case with women, depending on their identity and what they have been exposed to makes the largest difference of how they act emotionally. There are many women in prison in today, so I do not think that there would be much of a