Philip K. Dick

The hard-boiled detective, in noir tradition, is typically depicted as a lone wolf figure, one that upholds morality while balancing the corruption inherent in his line of work. He could be defined by his sexual potency, just as much as by his denial of pleasure. Raymond Chandler, in his 1950 essay, The Simple Art of Murder, outlines this archetype, with an authority appropriate to his foundational authorship. Chandler writes, “He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a…

Prison Break Carmela Estrella B. Enriquez // BAJ 2-1D They locked him up in a closet for Twenty-four years but, he found a way out. He is, in fact, a mechanical engineer, bred with ingenuity and sparked with the right amount of madness. Twenty-four years he was locked up by the society’s machoism but one decision gave him the key to freedom. “I really learned how to strive hard and earn something from myself not from my parents, not from the people around me” he says. “Basically, that's my…

The film Compliance portrays a true story that draws a eerie connection to the Stanley Milgram’s experiment and the Stanford Prison experiment. It involves seemingly normal people committing horrible acts under social influence. However, the real setting of the story in the film versus the laboratorial conditions of the experiments entail the debate over the extent of their connection. While the results of experiments certainly provide insights into the possible social psychological mechanisms…

Stanley Milgram examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II, Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just following orders from their superiors. I. Participants: May 1962 the experiment is conducted in an elegant interaction laboratory at Yale university, the participants are 40 white males who are between the ages of 20 and 50 who were from the New Haven area II. Apparatus and materials: Stanley…

1. Philip Zimbardo and his associates Craig Huney, Curtis Banks, and David Jaffe were interested in the psychological affects experienced by prisoners and employees of prisons. They were trying to answer the question “Does prison change people?” They did not formulate any hypotheses, but they believed that powerful situations can overcome internal behavioral tendencies, leading us to engage in behaviors that are different from our usual selves, and that situation exerts strong effects over our…

own perspective opinion. The Stanford Prison Experiment which was conducted in 1971 by psychologist Philip Zimbardo and his colleagues. This was a pioneer experiment which push the limits to the exploration to human behavior. One of his colleagues Philip Zimbardo was a former classmate of a Stanley Milgram, a psychologist from Yale University who was famously known for his obedience experiment…

What or who is hiding behind a computer screen on the other side may just be your worst nightmare. Philip Markoff, an aspiring medical student was dubbed the Craigslist killer in 2009 for committing robberies and even killing one of his victims. Cases like these raise questions such as, what drives a person to murder? Maybe he was deranged, or in a state of panic.…

psychology and criminology. While the Stanford Prison Experiment did invoke questions as to the results of the experiment, it invoked more questions as to ethics in psychological experiments and what is acceptable. The Stanford Prison Experiment by Philip Zimbardo asks for student volunteers for a paid experiment where students would be randomly selected to play guard and prisoner in a mock prison at Stanford University. The experiment was called off by Zimbardo himself after being confronted by…

Between Milgram and Zimbardo, their main objective for their experiments was to research on human behavior. In both instances, they had predicted their results but were shocked to find out that the results were total opposite of what they thought would happen. However, both experiments had many similarities and differences on how their experiment had affected their subjects. Even though these research experiments were conducted years ago, it does matter to society today by how people obey…

The goal of the guns, testosterone, and aggression research report was to test whether interacting with guns increased testosterone levels and later aggressive behaviors. The researchers used 30 male college students from the age of 18 to 22 as their subject, getting extra credit in return. To protect the results of the experiment, subjects were told they would be participating in an experiment that examined taste sensitivity in males. Since their saliva would be taken for hormone analysis,…