Philip Zimbardo

Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority: Then and Now Austin Groshens PSYC C101 December 3, 2017 Cerro Coso Community College Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority: Then and Now Stanley Milgram’s 1963 experiment on obedience tested an individual’s wiliness to follow the instructions of authority figures. Milgram wanted to determine if people would harm others, even giving them a shock at the level as to cause death, on the orders of another. The results showed people, when…

Based on the understanding of the experiment, ethics in research, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) and American Society of Criminology (ASC) Code of Ethics, it is in my opinion that the experiments were unethical. The experiment was about teachers administering electronic shocks to learners, pretenders, for each incorrect answer given. The teachers were the actual subject of the experiment but were not aware. Milgram may have succeeded in proving the concept of obedient to authority…

The conflict was reduced in the Robbers Cave experiment by both teams, The Rattlers and The Eagles, coming together to solve a common problem. The problem in this case was a lack of water supply. The working together of the two groups neutralized the hostility by fostering understanding of the other. The logic behind this intervention was that working together builds trust and leads to dissolving some of the dissonance between one group and the other. The Stanford prison experiment helped…

guards was dispositional or situational” (McLeod, 2008). However, what they got out of the experiment was a “situation in which prisoners were withdrawing and behaving in pathological ways” and where some of the guards “were behaving sadistically” (Zimbardo). The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most controversial studies ever conducted in the “history of social psychology” (Konnikova, 2015). The results of this experiment show the truth of how absolute power corrupts absolutely, why…

Before his time as a professor at a university, Jeffrey Williams worked as guard at the New York State correctional prison. He spent most of his time working at Downstate Correction Facility in Fishkill, New York. The prison had a “campus” style in which cluster of cells were arranged in horseshoe shape, rather than long rows. This style seemingly permitted for a more pleasing environment with less chaos. Williams writes that most of the prisoners in Downstate Correction Facility are serving for…

I strongly believe that there were only a few bad apples with dark side hidden down deep as far as the Abu Ghraib prison torture, sexual harassment and killings perpetrated by soldiers in the prison and all what it takes for these bad apples is for the right opportunity to come to show out all their dark sides. Its only small portion of the American army soldiers that was operating and controlling Abu Ghraib prison. Accountability for the abuse of the inmates at Abu Ghraib prison have been…

On 10/25/17, at 1900 hours, in Durango 8 located at 3225 W. Gibson Ln Phoenix AZ 85009, Inmate Rubio, Daniel T391297 informed Officer Mossman B3777 that he was the victim of an alleged PREA violation while he was housed in Durango 9. Officer Mossman immediately removed Inmate Rubio from the housing unit for his safety and notified a supervisor. Inmate Rubio was taken to the Durango Medical Clinic by Officer Encinas B3226 where he was evaluated by RN Anthony 1247H. Inmate Rubio was cleared to…

Now, as the book progresses on, Zimbardo launches into his experiment which to me is quite interesting and impressive. In this experiment, Zimbardo is wanting to prove that in certain situations, normal good people can turn into perpetrators of evil who commit such behaviors. He calls this, “The Stanford Prison experiment” in which normal individuals were assigned to prisoners and guards as a test of psychology of imprisonment. After having done this, Zimbardo became witness to an extreme number…

In the summer of 1971, Dr. Zimbardo designed and conducted an experiment that would forever change the way that sociologists and psychologists viewed human nature and how environmental circumstances can change a person’s psyche. While the experiment was designed to last two weeks, it had to be terminated after the sixth day due to the rapid increase of abuse against the prisoners by the guards. Though it is now considered extremely unethical by society’s standards today, The Stanford Prison…

unethical acts allowed throughout the experiment. Another major manifestation of violations of ethics happened when some of the prisoners asked for a doctor’s help. Anyone could see that the prisoners were suffering from serious psychological harm. Zimbardo found himself fully invested in the experiment. Although he was the lead researcher of the experiment, his investment of the jail stimulation, primed him to become blind to the reality of the situations presented throughout the jail…