The Experiment

society is expecting of them. Rather, many of college student, find our way by obeying them. While, many others don’t even follow this image created by society for them. In the Milgram Experiment that was conducted in 1963 at Yale University, where psychologist Stanley Milgram set up a test know as the Experiment 5, for…

This experiment went wrong and led to mental problems. These problems became so extreme that the experiment was discontinued after 6 days instead of 2 weeks. The Stanford Prison Experiment called into question the idea of Good vs Evil. The experiment showed how situational journey can cause an individual to “compromise” their beliefs. This change in behavior lead to psychological conflict among the “guards” and “prisoners.” The main psychologist that conducted this experiment’s name is Philip…

THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS EXPERIMENT The Tuskegee syphilis study was one of the most disgraceful, immoral and unethical experiment known to mankind and to the public health system. However, it played a critical role in establishing new research regulations and guidelines in the United States. The Tuskegee syphilis study took place in Macon County, Alabama in 1932 on a large group of African American men who were unknowingly being studied. The participants were mostly uneducated sharecroppers who…

The field experiment conducted by Hofling et al (1966) which produced surprising results of nurses complying and obeying the orders of doctors to the extent of violating protocol by giving more than acceptable doses of medication provides evidence to the extent at which obedience and submitting to higher authority works in our society. Obedience can be defined as compliance with an order, request or submitting to a higher authority. There are certain conditions that should exist for obedience to…

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 social scientists…

The general reaction that I had toward this study was disgust and disappointment. The disgust was directed toward the relationship between authority figures and the inmates. Be it the guards or the "prison" superintendent, there were major flaws in this study that opened a flood gate of unethical practices. As for the disappointment, that reaction was solely triggered by the Zimbardo, the "prison superintendent". The manner in which these young men were allowed to treat their peers for the sake…

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…

But, what is a “good society”, and what does it need? “The Obedience to Authority Experiment of Stanley…

percent of individuals gave a wrong answer at least once. Participants said they gave the wrong answer because they feared the might appear “peculiar” to the other members of the group if they did not agree, or because they did not want to mess up the experiment.” People conform to group norms “because they want to fit in with the group (normative influence) and because they believe the group is better informed than they are informational influence” (McLeod, S. A.…

An experiment by C. Ruth Solomon and Francoise Serres was preformed in Quebec, Canada regarding the effects of verbal aggression on children’s school marks and self-esteem. The purpose of the entire experiment was to determine how verbal aggression negatively effects children’s self-esteem and achievements in school. This topic is an interesting experiment because the exact effects of any kind of verbal abuse in a child’s home is hard to set apart from any other kind of abuse. It is important to…