Leland Stanford

Before reading the chapter 4, I actually watched a movie that was very similar to the Sanford Prison Experiment. I think it was called Chaos Experiment; I thought it was very interesting. Chapter 4, pp 103 explained that the Sanford Prison Experiment was actually a procedure method that involved college men who volunteered to either be a guard or evil prisoners. The purpose of the experiment was to see if guards are the cause to a violent prison or if the prisoners are the cause of a violent…

The Stanford prison experiment was an investigation of the mental impacts of turning into a detainee or jail monitor. The investigation was directed at Stanford University on August 14–20, 1971, by a group of analysts drove by brain science teacher Philip Zimbardo utilizing undergrads. It was subsidized by the U.S. Office of Naval Research and was important to both the U.S. Naval force and Marine Corps as an examination concerning the reasons for strife between military gatekeepers and detainees…

had been closely looking into Stanford Financial Group and investigating the certificates of deposit because of the returns that they were providing to their investors. In addition, the fact that the company’s assets showed an increase of 7 billion in a time span of only seven years (2001-2008) also seemed sketchy. As Stanford’s criminal case states “The indictment alleges that, in fact, approx. $5 billion of SIBL’s reported assets consisted of notes on loans to Stanford and grossly overstated…

question into motion, turning the basement of the university into a prison. In present day, this experiment would have been much harder to get passed by Institutional Review Boards, or even not at all. While Zimbardo might have had good intentions, the Stanford Prison Experiment was a breach of research ethics. Before Zimbardo got the ball rolling for his experiment, he had a deductive research approach. The approach stats that a theory is formed which leads to a hypothesis, then makes…

The Stanford prison experiment was an experiment held between August 14th and went all the way up until August 20th. In this experiment, a psychology professor named Philip Zimbardo attempts to form a model prison where he would select participants to either be guards or prisoners. The participants were interviewed, and the ones chosen were randomly assigned their roles of being either prisoners, or guards. The model prison was created in the basement of Stanford University, and it was meant to…

The Stanford Prison Experiment (August 1971) was conducted by Philip Zimbardo and his peers at Stanford University to investigate the effects of 24 physically and mentally healthy male college students becoming guards or prisoners. One of the key elements present throughout the experiment was deindividuation, the loss of one’s sense of individuality. In deindividuation, the social identity consumes an individual completely in order for group norms to be maximally accessible. The central…

Imagine yourself on a crisp, foggy morning with thick metal chains around your wrists and ankles slowly dragging aboard the island ferry with 136 other horrifying inmates. You are stuck in a cramped space for the next fifteen minutes, being shoved and pounded on making it even more difficult to keep your balance as the ship sways. Then you catch a quick glance through all the fog at what is soon to be your new home. All of a sudden the ferry is still. The guards open the door. One of them gapes…

The experiment began on August 14, 1971 and was intended to run for seven to fourteen days (Haney 4). The selection process was meant to choose the most normal, stable students out of the applicants to ensure the results of the experiment were not changed by the subjects’ predispositions. Zimbardo’s goal with the experiment was to put participants that were deemed normal and average and see how the prison environment and their roles in it changed them over time.(Haney 4) The volunteers were…

1. How did SIB’s status as an “offshore bank” facilitate Stanford’s alleged fraud? One reason is that the SIB’s status as an “offshore bank”, is that the bank did not have to follow any of the U.S. laws or regulations. Also the fact that it only had a portion of the assets of a multi bullion dollar company helped. 2. Why would investors be willing to sacrifice immediate access to the funds they deposited with SIB? It is because they wanted more return for their money. Since they expected above…

stereotypical aspects that portray them as being either inherently good or bad. In 1971, Stanford University created a simulation of prison life. The experiment consisted of a uniform group of 24 males that were aimlessly divided into two groups — guards and prisoners (Maher 2015). On the sixth day, the experiment was terminated because there were concerns that the prisoners’ wellbeing was in jeopardy (Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment 2014). Needless to say, the group of guards took their…