Bilal Philips

An experiment to test how far a person is willing to go in the name of obedience was conducted at Yale University. People are usually obedient to people with power or above them, therefore, in this experiment an administrator would tell the test subjects to shock the victim, who was obviously, an actor/someone in on the experiment. In this article the author, Stanley Milgram elaborates and describes the experiment. Like any other article out there, there are weakness along with strengths. The…

Zimbardo’s experiment solicited young men to spend two weeks in a simulated prison experience. The men who were responded were divided into prison guards and prisoners. The prisoners were treated as such, they were arrested, fingerprinted and sent to the simulated jail. According to the experiment with in a few days upon video observations the men began to crack under the pressure of the harsh treatments, such as cleaning the toilets with their bare hands. The experiment was ended abruptly due…

In the preface of Philip Zimbardo’s non-fiction book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, he uncovers various reasonings on what influenced him into conducting the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE). Part of his inspiration for writing this book was heavily based on the Abu Ghraib Prison Trial where he was the expert witness to one of the prison guards, Sergeant Ivan “Chip” Douglas, who was convicted of the many tortures and murders of the prisoners that occurred at…

The Stanford Prison Experiment In 1971, a mock prison was built in the basement of the psychology building of Stanford University. About twenty-four male students were randomly picked to play the role of either a prisoner or a guard for two weeks. Prisoners were treated like every other criminal, being arrested at their own homes, without warning, and being taken away. When the prisoners arrived at the prison they were stripped naked, lost all their personal possessions, were removed from the…

This essay will examine two psychological research studies which were carried out in the past with particular focus on the ethical principles of each study with relation to the ethical principles administered by the British Psychological Society’s code of ethics and conduct. These studies will be briefly outlined before an analysis of each is made with regards to some practices which would not be considered ethical today. The first study was conducted by Milgram (1963) in order to explain why…

You just got accepted to your dream college and have enthusiastically spent all week packing all your articles, and now you are driving hours on end to your new residence, a college dorm in Stanford, California, on the Stanford University campus. You are so thrilled, but also nervous, to start a new adventure here in California. It’s your first day and you are eager to go to your classes and become that college student you’ve pictured for what seems like forever. While walking through the campus…

When you hear about a celebrity going to jail, one would have an active imagination as to what kind of issue this brought on. However, in the case of Nick Cannon, the actor goes to a D.C. jail where he sits down and learns with the inmates. Nick Cannon is a Howard student and he goes where Bahiyyah Muhammad, a criminologist and assistant professor at Howard University goes. He teaches "Inside Out: Crime and Justice Behind the Wall" at the D.C. jail. Once a week, for three hours, Nick Cannon…

Annotated Bibliography Acheson, Katherine. “On Authorship, Sexuality and the Psychology of Privation in Milton's ‘Paradise Lost.'" The Johns Hopkins University Press, 67.4 (2000): 905. Web. 13 Nov. 2016. Throughout literature history, sexual relationships have been a major factor that contributes to the overall theme of a story. The author of this article, Acheson, makes it clear that sexuality is obviously a prime element in the tale Paradise Lost. By incorporating sexuality into literature…

nature? Psychologists had been wondering the same thing for a long time. In fact, they just believed that these children had some hidden trait that made them barbarous by nature. In reality, it could’ve been the stress that they were put through. Philip Zimbardo is a very popular social psychologist for his groundbreaking work with the effects certain situations…

The Stanford Prison Experiment revolutionized how society views the relationship between prison guards and prisoners as well as how to conduct social experiments. The college students used by Philip Zimbardo adhered to their roles as the prison guards and gave a more authoritarian response to the students that played the role of the prisoners than Zimbardo hypothesized. These roles shaped the personalities of the prison guards as well as the prisoners. Social Structure and Personality studies…