John Philip Kemble

The crime drama ‘Heat’ (Mann) tells the story of a criminal, Neil, and a cop, Vincent. One is content, calm, and has a budding love interest. The other is unhappy, brash, and is at the end of his third marriage. In any other movie, the first description would characterize Vincent and the second would represent Neil. ‘Heat’ flips these roles and makes the criminal behave like a cop and the cop act criminal. Michael Mann, the director of ‘Heat’, chooses to portray these characters as opposites to…

popular experiment in the history of psychology. The idea belongs to psychologist Philip Zimbardo where he chose to test his ideas. He spent most of his early career planning behavioral studies that focused on biological processes such as hunger and thirst. In 1960's he really started to focus on social psychology issues, such as conformity. Zimbardo wanted to know what mattered more, our moral or our environment. Philip Zimbardo's experiment on prison life showed how quickly a person can…

Humans are social animals. For numerous years they have been evolved to be aware of their environment and act accordingly. The group environment affects the fundamental ways of their thinking. They say unimaginable things and do unthinkable things. Some are good, some are bad, and some are purely evil. The Milgram Experiment and Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo) shows the dark side of human nature and demonstrates that under the social pressure, even a truly rational person can ignore his…

In 1971, a social psychologist by the name of Phillip Zimbardo conducted the Stanford Prison Study. Zimbardo researched the Abu Ghraib Prison problem took place in Iraq in 2003 and was made aware to the United States citizens in 2004. In fact, “the driving force behind this book was the need to better understand the how and why of the physical and psychological abuses perpetrated on the prisoners by American Military at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq.” (Zimbardo 2007, p. 18) Zimbardo expressed…

America was founded and built on the principles of opportunity and equality for all. It was only during the Industrial Revolution that people started to feel like these principles were being disregarded. People were starting to want fair wages, reasonable hours and safer working conditions. When these problems became an issue for the common worker, across the board, it ultimately led to the labor movement. Over time these group of workers transformed into a movement that came together and…

The 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Stanford University Professor Philip Zimbardo, gave an essential viewpoint into the psychology of prison guards (authority figures) as well as inmates. Through this experiment, subcultures arose that defined the roles of guards and inmates. The guards tended to take on more aggressive roles, using psychological abuse towards the inmates as punishment and a means of control. Meanwhile, the "prisoners" were victimized by the "guards." The experiment…

The topic in which I have selected is the TED talk given by Philip Zimbardo titled, ‘The Psychology of Evil’. I choose this topic because of my interest in criminal behavior and the psychology behind what makes a person commit crime. Zimbardo started by talking about his theory called the Lucifer effect, which is based around the idea that, “evil is the exercise of power” (Zimbardo, 2008). He then gives examples to explain what he means by this. Zimbardo also talked about Social psychologist’s…

Social influences can have many different effects on people depending on what situation they are in as found in Stanley Milgram’s Obedience study. In Phillip Zimbardo’s Prison Experiment, he used the power that police and prison guards gain while in control to show that having a figure giving directions will drastically change the way that someone will act in accordance or defiance with the authority figure’s orders and how much people will fall into their roles in their situation. At Abu Ghraib…

This essay will focus on “A Study of Prison Guards in a Stimulated Prison”, an experiment conducted in 1973 at Stanford University, by one of the most famous Psychologists to date, Philip Zimbardo. Interestingly, the Office of Naval Research sponsored the study as part of an ongoing programme tailored to generate a better understanding of the first principles of psychological processes underlying human aggression (Haney, Banks, & Zimbardo, 1973). A famous experiment widely propagated in the…

Zimbardo Assignment The Stanford Prison Experiment was a psychological study of human replication to captivity, in cognation to the authentic circumstances of prison life. It was conducted in August 1971 by Phillip Zimbardo, a psychologist at Stanford University. Subjects were desultorily assigned, by the flip of a coin, to play the role as prisoner or the role as a prison sentinel. Those assigned to play the role as the sentinel were given night sticks, a whistle, and mirrored sunglasses to…