Main Points Of Philip Zimbardo

“The Stanford Prison Experiment” by Philip G. Zimbardo was written to explain the results of the Stanford prison experiment. Zimbardo while trying to gain support for his conclusions of the experiment, demonstrated many errors in his writing, and in his own experiment. The errors that Zimbardo commits call into question the validity of his argument, and the experiment. The goal explained by Zimbardo was “to understand more about the process by such people called “prisoners” lose their liberty, civil rights, independence, and privacy, while those called “guards” gain social power by accepting the responsibility for controlling and managing the lives of their dependent charges” (Zimbardo 733).

In the pursuit of safety, acceptance, and the public good, many atrocities have been committed in places such as Abu Ghraib and My Lai, where simple, generally harmless people became the wiling torturers and murderers of innocent people. Many claim to have just been following orders, which illustrates a disturbing trend in both the modern military and modern societies as a whole; when forced into an obedient mindset, many normal and everyday people can become tools of destruction and sorrow, uncaringly inflicting pain and death upon the innocent.

Returning to Zitkala-Sa, we can see how her work strongly contests Turner’s ideas about what it means to be “evolved.” At home in the west, Zitkala-Sa and her family and friends had well-established, respected customs for everything: food collection, meal preparation, hairstyles, fashion, crafting, storytelling, religion, and more. Without recognizing this point we risk falling into the same mindset as Turner, in believing that Indian culture was primitive at best and nonexistent at worst. Conversely, at boarding school, Zitkala-Sa and her fellow Native American peers are forced to learn a new language, cut their hair short, wear “immodest” clothes, and indoctrinate themselves into Christianity, among other things. In Turner’s eyes, this may seem like the natural course of action in the “procession of civilization” (32), but to Zitkala-Sa, these experiences left her feeling like a “mummy,” chained up prior to her “burial” (Zitkala-Sa 97.) She states that it was “inbred in [her] to suffer in silence” at the hands of the “civilizing machine” (96), and remarks that she often “wept in secret, wishing [she] had gone West, to be nourished by [her] mother’s love, instead of remaining

The mind is the most complex but fascinating feature of human beings. Although our minds are the primary source of love, care, and goodness, our minds are also capable of perpetuating hate, abuse, and evil towards others. Abu Ghraib, a city in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq, is notoriously known for the horrific incidents of torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers in 2004. Although the events happened 10 years ago, the events continue to ponder our minds as we question, "How were they capable of doing those things?" There are many theories in regards to the cause of the Abu Ghraib incident. After analyzing the arguments, theories, and explanations of Robert Tolmach Lakoff, Dianne Benscoter, Tara Mcklevy, and Phillip

I’m always a person to judge very quickly, I guess it’s just part of my instincts. But it comes to a point where I notice my selfishness by doing so and my guilt doesn’t allow me to do it any further. When it comes to the subject of the holocaust, I have always been very interest in why it was something like such would ever been done by a human being. To do so I have tried to look at it from every possible angle and have done my best to not be biased and look at every corner of the case, but I am incapable of recognizing this as anything else besides plain cruelty. After reading Shep Zitler’s experience of the event I was capable of feeling his remorse and agony. Knowing that he was a jew who experienced not only the cruelty of the acts cause

The two experiments were a tested at different time periods and for different purposes. For instance, the Milgram experiment was originally tested to study obedience to authority, in response to Adolf Eichmann trial, a Nazi war criminal, that stated he,” was just stating orders under the Reich.” The experiment proved to be that under authority rule, actions, even if morally wrong and unethical can be still taken forward with due to a strict authority presence.

According to Zombrowski, stop giving assignments would help improving student’s attendance is wrong because it is based on the over-simplification. Zombrowski makes this claim: teachers should stop giving small assignment in class designed to “encourage students to attend” commits the over-simplification fallacy because it does not follow that handing out assignments causes all students to be present at class (1). To repeat, there are various reasons why students attend classes such as interesting course contents or catching up with friends. Moreover, assignments allow students to practice and review what they have learned in class. Just because giving assignments in class may affect some of students not to do what they want, it does not mean

The second reason that Zimbardo gives for people turning evil is “the seven social processes that grease the slippery slope of evil” (TED Talks). That phrase translates to seven thought processes that lead a person to evils that they never thought they could. Mindlessly taking the first small step expresses in words part of what Stanley Milgram ran an experiment to test. The first step of his experiment involved shocking a “learner” with fifteen volts. Taking the first small step, in the case of Milgram the first, harmless 15 volt shock, can lead to shocks that ended at 450 volts, a lethal shock. Secondly, the dehumanization of others, when one experiences confrontation with other people they see them as not having feelings as though they are their enemies. Continuing on into the de-individualization of self which translates to the power of anonymity.

Although some turn to evil, some have motives to strive to be a better person and even for the good of others. “Diary of Anne Frank” and “1933 Hitler Comes to power” both show countless examples of treacherous and wonderful actions many people have done whether it tore them down or raised them up. Although the world and it’s people may seem cruel, you need to look beyond that and find the innocence in every little thing even if some don’t take the time to do

In the final analysis of war effects’ on people, Ozick shares a fiction story that illustrates some of effects of war on a young Jewish woman and her family. Ozick touches upon every individual of this small family. She discusses the physical pain of Magda, the change of morality of Stella and the psychological effects of war on Rosa. The two experiments, Zimbardo and Milgram’s, can relate to the same concept of war effects and why soldiers would obey the orders no matters what they were told. Zimbardo would support Ozick in showing the physical and psychological pain of prisoners and also he shows the change of morality of the gaurds. Milgram would support Ozick in sharing how the learners lose their sense of morality in obeying the orders.

When the task at hand is to conceptualize and elucidate the miraculous nature of what normally cannot be described by the physical senses, the essence of nature and being itself will be revealed through intense reflection and analogizing. After careful analysis of some of Erich
 Przywara’s works in Analogia Entis, Metaphysics: Original
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Rhythm, the tools acquired to grapple with this type of difficult metaphysical contemplation ensure that mere mortals are even capable of such thought. Przywara raises an interesting issue in particular in his writings about philosophy and theology synchronizing in a mutual cohabitation. This is to say that to understand certain aspects of the divine, one matter of study does not trump

This paper serves to summarize The Zimbardo Prison Experiment, better known as The Stanford Prison Experiment which was conducted by Phillip Zimbardo in 1971 at Stanford University. The purpose of the study was to conduct research in order to better understand the psychological components of human aggression and submission to include conformity and obedience in a prison environment with a select group of subjects playing roles as either prison guards or inmates, however, I should note, according to McLeod, S. (2016), The Navy’s intent or purpose for the experiment was to better understand how to train members of the armed forces on how to cope with stress associated with captivity as opposed to making American Prison systems more humane. Another interesting point of note is that Zimbardo conducted this experiment shortly after World War II, and the Vietnam War where concern was raised as to some of the atrocities carried out in those wars where “ordinary” people conducted heinous acts per instruction from so-called authoritative figures. Experiments with similar objectives were carried out by Stanley Milgram and others. (Jones, A. D., & Milgram, S. 1974)

By today’s standards, Zimbardo’s experiment would be seen as unethical and he would not have been given the authority to conduct such a cruel experiment. Therefore, gathering information to support his hypothesis would have to be collected by different measures. The most used method of collecting data about the power of social situations is better collected through alternative means like surveys and interviews because people are free to respond. Both the survey and interview research methods are done by targeting a section of the population and asking a series of questions either in an interview or via questionnaire (Doing Sociological Research, n.d., p.41). Another method for generating research data is through participant observation (Doing

In contrast, self-compassionate people might not resonate with one particular time frame because their ability to take a balanced perspective could be applied to how they view time. According to Buddhist psychology, self-compassionate people give equal consideration to the past, present and future. They view time as endless cycles of life, death and rebirth (the wheel of life) and believe individuals transmigrate (soul moves to another body) following death, to continue the cycle (Bruce, 2007). Buddhists believe humans are ‘time-being’, meaning that time and the sense of self are inseparable; if time did not exist, nothing would exist (Barnard & Curry, 2011). Self-compassionate people might be defined as having a balanced time perspective (BTP), where there is no preference for a particular temporal frame, potentially explaining the association between self-compassion and health behaviours. Zimbardo and Boyd (1999) suggested that a BTP is important for promoting health behaviours because it allowed individuals to become self-aware in situations and self-awareness has been found to positively correlate with health

A subjective questions like this warrants a deeper look into oneself in order to correctly respond. All the subjects were healthy and physically entering the situation. It is the situation itself that turned these average college students into sadists. According to Zimbardo, the situation placed power into the hands into these students, therefore leading them to abuse it. Everyone has the capacity to do evil, however the situation was the enabler. I believe that if I was placed in the situation where I was in control, had authority, and had not oversight. I would’ve become like the rest of the guards there. Because Zimbardo has said that the “evil”-doers were not inherently bad people, they were ordinary folks like the rest of us. The guards