Experiment

The Stanford prison experiment studied the results psychologically of the individuals in a prison. It occurred at Stanford University in 1971, led by Philip Zimbardo. It began in the Psychology Department, turning the basement into a prison. Creating three rooms, and one room for solitary confinement. The job was offered to become a guard or prisoner for $15 a day, where they approved to partake in a 7-to 14-day experiment, also having alternates in case of problems. Zimbardo took on the role of…

Even though Zimbardo's prison experiment is 46 years old it, the findings were so punctual that it is still talked about today. Zimbardo lead the experiment in 1971 with Craig Haney and Curtis banks. The experiment was conducted in the basement of the psychology building, which they converted into a small prison block.. The Experiment was originally scheduled to be conducted for a 2 week period but due to the results Zimbardo was getting they cut the project at just 6 days. Somewhere of about 75…

Norcross’s Fred thought experiment is an imaginative scenario in which he tries to draw a comparison to factory farms in the United states to discuss the morality of them. In his scenario, a man named Fred is on trial for torturing puppies. Fred’s defense is that torturing the puppies provides him with a pleasure to taste the goodness of chocolate, the sense in which he can’t attain any other way due to an accident that happened to him. Although ridiculous, the story is analogous to factory…

lacks respect for the law while the guards are browbeat and aggressive. To observe the roles played in prison situations, Zimbardo turned a basement of the Stanford University psychology building into a fake prison. Zimbardo advertised his prison experiment trying to find students to take part in the study of the mental effects of life in prison. The applicants who answered the ad and were interviewed and given a personality test to exclude people with mental issues, medical disabilities, or a…

goodness and mortality one possesses. In an experiment to explore the humans tendency toward obedience, one person (the subject) is put to the test and faced with a significant question, stop hurting the man who is crying out in pain, or obey the instructor and participate in the actions being brought forward? Three people participate in this experiment, two of which are actors, and one a subject who does not know the secret behind the experiment. In this experiment the actor who acts as an…

In recent years, many experiments have been conducted on conformity, such as the Asch, Stanford Prison, Sherif’s autokinetic effect, and Milgram experiments. Despite strong criticism, all of these experiments yielded similar results. Every one of them showed strong social conformity in its participants. Conformity is defined as, “behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards.” There are six main types of social conformity: normative, informational, compliance,…

The social experiment that Devah Pager conducted in Milwaukee revealed the ways in which stigmas and labels can affect certain individuals. Pager’s field experiment was conducted as follows: a group of young college men posing as high school graduates with limited work experience were asked to submit job applications. There were four main groups: white with a criminal background, black with a criminal background, white with no criminal background, black with no criminal background. Men with…

The Zimbardo experiment was a study aimed at finding out whether the brutality among guards in American prisons were due to the sadistic personalities of the prison guards or had more to do with the prison environment. The study concluded that people will eagerly conform to their social roles they are expected to play especially if the roles are strongly stereotyped as those of prison guards. An example of a similar experience can be seen in the secondary school I attended a few years ago. It…

The Stanford Prison Study Experiment took place from August 14 - 20, 1971. The experiment was held in the basement psychology building of Stanford University, where a fake prison was set up. Professor Philip Zimbardo led the experiment along with fellow graduate researchers, trying to figure out how the humans react to a situation where they a powerless. They picked several white male middle-class students to take part in the experiment. Half of the students were chosen to be “guards” and the…

Milgram’s experiment on obedience to authority is one of the best known studies in social psychology. It was repeated several times in different variations. These replications extended our knowledge about the phenomenon of complying to authorities’ orders. One of them was the experiment conducted by Hofling et al. This essay will outline the similarities and differences between these two studies. Firstly, in their aims, results and conclusions. Secondly, their methodological and ethical aspects.…