Leland Stanford

Identifying the Self Lauren Slater firsts introduces us to Stanley Milgram and his experiments in the chapter Obscura. In this chapter we revolve around the topic of self-identity compared to who we really are while under the influence of the power of authority. Slater, although unclear of the true meaning of these experiments, finds they have great power in shedding light on the distinction between who we think we are versus who we truly are (Slater, 39). This then makes myself wonder, am I…

Obedience is the concept of changing one’s behaviour in order to suit a demand from an authority figure (Kenrick, Neuberg, & Cialdini, 2010) and it is considered to be a strong social influence. Because of this it has been the interest of psychologists decades in the past and it continues to be in the present. Many recent experiments have been carried out (Slater, Antley, Davison, Swapp, Guger, Barker et al., 2006; Dambrun & Vatine, 2010; Burger, 2009; Zeigler-Hill, Southard, Archer & Donohoe,…

Good can be viewed as morally right or righteous while bad can be defined as immoral or malevolent. Human nature isn’t good or bad but daily surroundings in our lives affect our decisions. In the novel Lord of the Flies (1954), some boys get stranded on an island and lose sense of their personal identity and most become complete savages, because of the lack of civilization. On the contrary, in Hamlet, every decision Hamlet decides is not because he is evil or mad but, because of his beliefs or…

The Iraqi prison twenty miles away from Baghdad Abu Ghraib is now infamous for maltreatment. It is unknown how many people the prison held. The vast majority of prisoners were civilians picked up by the military at traffic stops. They were undocumented in the prison or placed under an ambiguous category of "common criminals" or those suspected of "crimes against the coalition". Most were not meant to be in Abu Ghraib, but since many prisoners were undocumented, this went overlooked as did the…

Human behavior The study conducted on “The Stanford Prison Experiment” was done by Craig Haney, Curtis Banks, and Dr. Phillip Zimbardo sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. Its audience was for those seeking results to understand human behavior and social psychology such as the Office of Naval Research. The “Stanford Prison Experiment” article focuses mainly around 22 “normal males” who applied to be involved in a mock prison. Dr. Zimbardo and his graduate assistance Mr. Banks and Mr.…

Abedal Arman Stale Milgram’s study, obey at any cost, one of the most studies well known to psychology students, meant to satisfy the objective of how the idea of obedience to authority was projected. Milgram’s research in fact was a jointed research with Zimbardo’s prison study. The research conducted by Milgram was meant to show how individuals can be capable of inflicting harm onto others just because they were asked to do so. The research was in fact referring to all the hideous crimes…

In 1973, Philip Zimbardo, a professor of psychology at Stanford University conducted a summer experiment showing how humans in would react towards being in closed in a prison environment. He recruited college students and offered to pay them, too many it was more interesting than a summer job. The experiment was supposed to continue for two weeks and the participants would be divided into two group’s containing prisoners and guards. As volunteering prisoners of this experiment they would have to…

Through Phillip Zimbardo 's work, nearly 45 years ago, it was discovered what a person could do to another human being when they have near absolute power. A vast majority of people believe that they would never be able to do all the harmful things that were conducted during the prison experiment; yet I feel, after reading about this experiment and other similar experiments, that everyone is susceptible to the tantalizing taste of power. As an example, just recently I had a spat with my older…

Stanford Experiment They lost their sanity, behavior changed without even realizing when it did, being in a prison can change people, well at least it did in Phillip Zimbardo 's Stanford Prison Experiment. The experiment was instructed by Zimbardo a psychologist at Stanford University, who wanted to learn how people would conform to the roles of being a prisoner and a guard to simulate prison life. Although these boys were actors, not real prisoners or guards their reaction was shocking because…

Obedience can be defined as a form of social influence whereby the individual acts in a response to an order which is usually from an authority figure. It may well be that without such an instruction the individual may not have acted in this way. It can be seen as a necessary aspect of a society that individuals are obedient and show a respect for the rule of law and order. Obedience can help maintain a certain level of social cohesion, however if it is misdirected and individuals are…