Choi Jin-won directs and pens ‘’Mister Socrates’’, not a typical gangster film, but a movie that combines comedy, crime, drama and social commentary. The main character is Ku Dong-Hyeok (Kim Rae-won), who is a high-school drop-out and low-level thug. He shows no respect for other people, he has no ethics and he just loves to beat people. One night, while he reports the accidental murder of a friend of his, by another friend, he gets kidnapped by a gang. He is kept in an abandoned school and,…
Name: Shumaila Arif Roll No: 13002141-002 BS Psychology (Batch 2) Submitted To: Haya Fatima Personality theories paper-Frictional character Analysis “Adolf Hitler” Everyone in this world have unique personality and nature which is different…
According to Cardullo, Stanley rapes Blanche “because he has been physically attracted to her from the start and has been encouraged by her at least one occasion, and is able to fuel his desire with knowledge of her checkered past in Laurel.” The rape of Blanche DuBois is a sad yet complex story element to break down. From Blanche’s arrival in New Orleans her and Stanley have been butting heads. They clearly do not get along as well as Stella had hoped. Yet, there is a strange feeling in the…
The highly unethical nature of this experiment is quite apparent, in the film and in the actual experiment itself. Starting with deception, it was evident since the start of the study when the participants were made unaware of their random assignment and led to believe that their roles were based on their nature. Demand characteristics were briefly seen when the experimenter told the guards that they expected them to show their authority and discipline the prisoners Furthermore, there is…
People all over the world tend to toss their morals aside in order to conform to the influences of society or a higher superior. However, people below the chain of authority, especially the youth, struggle the most in attempt to triumph over these types of situations. Although conformity often helps society function correctly, there becomes a problem when a person’s identity becomes too infatuated within a higher authority that they disregard their own personal morals. So why in a society…
The movie, A Few Good Men, is a portrayal of a military courtroom where Privet Dawson and Downey are on trial for killing a colleague, Private Santiago. Milgram wrote "The Perils of Obedience ", which describes his experiment where there is a teacher and leaner. The teacher, the actual subject, shocks the learner for every wrong answer. The volts of electricity start at 15 increasing to 450. Kelman and Hamilton wrote "My Lai Massacre" which recounts the trial and thoughts of Lieutenant Calley,…
Social psychology is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “The study of the manner in which the personality, attitudes, motivations, and behavior of the individual influence and are influenced by social groups.” After reading the modules, article, and watching the video, it is difficult to pinpoint a singular influence on the employee’s behavior to begin to break all of the windows of a Burger King. The article entailed a story regarding a Minnesota Burger King and its employees. Late…
psychology and social psychology. Each of these individuals touched on the idea of behavior being dispositional until Solomon Asch, Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo introduced the idea that situations influence our actions. Dispositional behavior means that behavior is presented by an internal factor within us (e.g. the environment or culture we grow up in). Stanley Milgram peaked Zimbardo’s interest in testing the dispositional hypothesis through his popular study, the Milgram study. This…
the Nuremberg trials where justice was sought against Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann surprisingly claimed in his defence that he had simply obeyed orders (Baron & Branscombe, 2013). Influenced by the events of the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of famous yet controversial laboratory experiments investigating destructive obedience (Milgram, 1963, 1965). Aim:…
choose to mimic behaviour that is considered acceptable by society because they are afraid of being singled out and labelled an outsider. Others demonstrate a more deviant nature, yearning to be unique. Social scientists such as Philip Zimbardo, Stanley Milgram, and Solomon Asch examine an individual’s willingness to conform to individuals in power and or in groups. The film Cool Hand Luke follows a man who refuses to conform to accepted norms within a prison, as well as the prisoners who…