Elaborated below are the objectives and aims for a study conducted by a psychologist, Zimbardo, through an experiment which involved the volunteer participants to become guards and prisoners, known as the Zimbardo prison study.
The psychologist Zimbardo wished to find out whether good people who seem to be doing good and behaving nicely towards everyone do bad things sometimes. If yes, why do they do those bad things. The psychologist also meant to find out the key point about human behavior. Further, the psychologist wished to know that how and why conformity (when it does not produce positive results) sometimes contributes to giving negative or harmful results.
Ethical Values :- The study has received many ethical issues in zimbardo experiment like prisoners did not know to being arrested at home. All participant surprise to see the police that wanted to arrested them however this was a breach of the ethics of zimbardo’s own contract that all participants playing the role of prisoners and they don’t protected from psychological harm because they don’t know about zimbardo’s experiment and no one tell them about such type of things so that is not ethical good to become prisoner them and torture them. Its so unethical in zimbardo experiment and another thing is not good in zimbardo …show more content…
The guards’ behavior quickly changed into brutal and sadistic manner, they were punishing the prisoners and the common punishment was to do push-ups, and assigning foolish tasks and boring tasks to accomplish. As the prisoners became more obedient to guards, so the guards became more aggressive to