Human Behavior: The Stanford Prison Experiment

Human behavior The study conducted on “The Stanford Prison Experiment” was done by Craig Haney, Curtis Banks, and Dr. Phillip Zimbardo sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. Its audience was for those seeking results to understand human behavior and social psychology such as the Office of Naval Research. The “Stanford Prison Experiment” article focuses mainly around 22 “normal males” who applied to be involved in a mock prison. Dr. Zimbardo and his graduate assistance Mr. Banks and Mr. Haney provide the reader with convincing evidence by using results directly from their experiment and educate the reader in human behavior in a psychology aspect. Dr. Zimbardo is a psychologist and a professor at Stanford University who conducts his own …show more content…
On the other hand the guards only talked about “problem prisoners” (12). The behavior in both roles provides convincing evidence that one’s state of mind changes even in a mock prison in a matter of days. For example when given the opportunity to talk to a Catholic priest the prisoners referred to themselves as their prisoner number and not their name they also asked to be bailed out not mentioning they were being paid. Guards were away from the mock prison for 16 hours a day during shifts and when returning would become more manipulating in punishment. Dr. Zimbardo referees this to “pathology of power” (13). Prisoners were under “the pathological prisoner syndrome” (15) as the guards disrupted their eating and sleeping patterns to take more …show more content…
A post questionnaire reviled that the control the guards had effected not only the prisoner directly but those around i.e. in the cell with them. Prisoners said the punishments were unpredictable, thus not wanting to comply. The prisoners were emasculated and had to get permission just to go to the toilet this affects one not in a physical manner but in a dehumanizing way especially when privileges had to require permission. The conditions were so grueling that experiment did not last the full two weeks and caused post effects that stay experimental prisoners. The relationship between both guards and prisoners were not in human nature leading to believe that the guards are as in prisons as the prisoners when it comes to a society aspect. Dr. Zimbardo and his assistant show how prions ran like this have a effects on humans and help Office of Naval research not become counterproductive when their men are confined to small space for a short amount of