Philip Zimbardo: A Psychological Analysis

Violence Is Constructed Psychologist, who are people who study human behaviors, are interested in learning about humans’ brains. Psychologists are interested on knowing if humans are inherently violent beings, or do they learn how to be violent. Statistics shows how the amount of violence has increased in some society and how it has decreased in others. This statistic captured psychologist’s attention, and they want to learn if violence is learned or not. Throughout years, psychologists, have done research by doing experiments. A psychologist named Philip Zimbardo, conducted “The Stanford Prison Experiment” to understand the concept of violence, and then a movie came out called “The Experiment”, this movie was released to show an idea of …show more content…
Governments see humans as objects that have to follow orders and laws. “The Experiment” movie shows how rules are followed by prisoners because guards impose them. Time to go to sleep and push up were one of the rules imposed by the guards, and were not agreed by the prisoners. Feeling dissatisfied, the prisoners started to protest and go against all the guards. Time was passing, the frustration of every prisoner was escalating because the guards felt that they had high authority; the guards were imposing more and more rules. So, prisoners started to show violence against the guards, they wanted the experiment to end because they didn’t like the system the guards input. In real life, lots of protest are seen, in the streets, because society does not agree with a situation handled by the government. For example, in the 1900s, Africans-Americans were slaves for decades, and they started protesting in the streets; thousands of them were taken to prison, killed, or they suffered from physical violence. Like in the Original Experiment, a “Penitentiary Prisoner” wrote to Zimbardo, to tell him that he didn’t want to be a thief anymore, he wanted to kill all the guards that mistreated him in prison. Therefore, this shows how government or a system influences turning humans …show more content…
Political Science is an illusion that if it is discovered, humans react with violence. Every time any individual defines any illusion, violence start to grow for a demand of rights. It is better for humans to grow with illusions, so they don’t have to begin violent situations. “Social Science” gets in every human brains, and controls them. Psychological humans can have their brain control for years, but when they get to a limit of denying certain things, they react with anger. After anger, act of violence are shown, and it’s what “Social Science” has created. “History” follows everyone, so every human being remembers what they have experienced, and then shows violence. Because of their history, humans have done self-directed violence. History makes humans remember their past, and actions like suicidal ones are done to themselves because they think the solution will be resolved with death. Human will show what they have learned during their life time. So, these three facts, influence, the construction of every human