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ale college students needed for psychological study of prison life. $15 per day for 1-2 weeks. More than 70 people volunteered to take part in the study, to be conducted in a fake prison housed inside Jordan Hall, on Stanford's Main Quad. The leader of the study was 38-year-old psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. He and his fellow researchers selected 24 applicants and randomly assigned each to be a prisoner or a guard. Zimbardo encouraged the guards to think of themselves as actual guards in a real prison. He made clear that prisoners could not be physically harmed, but said the guards should try to create an atmosphere in which the prisoners felt "powerless." The study began on Sunday, August 17, 1971. But no one knew what, exactly, they…

Philip Zimbardo Short Intro + Approach Philip Zimbardo was born on the the 23rd of March 1933 in the Bronx, New York and was a professor at Stanford University. He is most known from his 1971 Stanford prison experiment and his research on the The Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory. In 2012, Zimbardo received the American Psychological Association Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Science of Psychology. His approach throughout his studies within psychology was social cultural. Main…

According to psychologist Philip Zimbardo, situational variables are the variables in which human behavior is manipulated due to the circumstances that they are put in. Zimbardo stated that humans are more prone to influences caused by the external environment, or “situation” as they can sometimes overwhelm humans, tempting them to do things that are beyond imagination (Dreifus, 2007). Zimbardo further proved his “situational variable” theory by organizing the Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971,…

The Milgram experiment was done by Stanley Milgram to see how people would respond when an authority figure told them to do something that went against their conscience. The subject was told to give shocks, which went up in voltage, to a learner who was in on the experiment, unknowingly to the subject. Psychologists estimated that 1% of the subjects would go to the end of the board; however, 65% of the subjects did. This proved that people are capable of doing anything, as long as it comes from…

I’ll admit, I found this book very difficult to read, but not because of the vocabulary words or because it was a medium-sized book that from a distance can look long-winded to many people. It was very difficult to read the Lucifer Effects, by Philip Zimbardo because it made me angry, annoyed and mostly horrified. I wasn’t angry at the author, I was angry at humanity and how far they can get twisted in ideals, religion or just turning plain evil. I know that evil is out there, most people know…

Success of the Macedonian Empire Previous ruler Philip II, third son of Macedonian king Amyntas III, was last in line for the throne when his father died. His eldest brother, Alexander II died shortly after taking the throne so his other brother, Perdiccas III became king. During this time Philip was held hostage by the Greeks, where he watched and learned from the fighting tactics of the Greeks for almost three years before returning home to assist his brother in bringing back Macedonia to its…

In 1971, Philip Zimbardo, an American psychologist and past president of the American Psychological Association, investigated these reasons for evil through his experiment, called the Stanford Prison Experiment. He randomly picked mentally healthy college students to play roles as prisoners and guards. Under Zimbardo, who was the warden of the prison, the guards psychologically abused the prisoners. From this, Zimbardo learned that the situation over inherent characteristics was what essentially…

Philip George Zimbardo is a psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University who investigated how readily people would comply to the roles of guard and prisoner in a role-playing exercise that simulated prison life. Zimbardo was interested in finding out if guards were being reported for their brutality because of the dispositional hypothesis stating that the guards’ personalities and aggression is conflicting with disobeying prisoners or the situational explanation stating that…

Philip Zimbardo is well versed in the field of psychology with over 50 years studying and teaching while holding a PH.D. from Yale University. He is recognized for his famous Stanford Prison experiment and has well over 400 publications. Zimbardo has served as president of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Zimbardo currently lives in San Fransisco with his wife and had three grown children. Craig Haney, who worked as an understudy with Zimbardo, is a psychologist who studies social…

ethics as part of other generalized subjects. (Breaux, et al.) Either way, research of this nature poses questions to the effect of how influential the lack of education is on the future decisions of workers. For example, if all a student learns in school is how to make a profit, why should he or she consider anything else when making a future decision. Furthermore, the problem runs deeper than just college education. As an article in the Clergy Journal points out, society goes easy on kids when…