Prisoner's Dilemma

The Stanford Prison Experiment was a clear example of how humans can adapt to specific social roles and behave differently under the pressure of control. The experiment illustrated the concepts of deviance and social control through participants behavior. Although the prisoners were not really prisoners, they believed that they were. The behavior of the prisoners began to morph along with the experiment. By day two, the prisoners were showing deviance by barricading themselves inside their cells. The environment and treatment of the prisoners were likely causes of the disobedience. Similarly, the guards showed signs of social control throughout the experiment. Guards were able to show control over the prisoners through various actions, such

Detrimental psychological effects and corrupt decision-making are noticeable outcomes of groupthink situations, and in The Stanford Prison Experiment, both of these factors were found as a result of the experiment. In fact, the presence of these detrimental factors forced the experiment to be concluded before schedule: after six days instead of two weeks. The decision-making processes of the guards were skewed and crooked. This is due to the roles the guards were told to play in addition to the group situation the guards found themselves in. Many guards acted under the impression of a “false unanimity” present within their group, and saw this as justification for their inhumane and

“The Sound of a Voice” by David Henry Hwang is a one act play telling the story of two characters, Man and Woman. These characters both live alone and isolated. Woman is rumored to be a witch, and Man is a soldier without a purpose who comes in hope of killing Woman. They both have a fear of silence and love. These unusual fears result in their fatal downfall. This play explores deep emotions, such as the fear of silence that Man and Woman share which pushes Woman to commit suicide. A fear of intimacy, felt exceptionally strong by Man, results in unfortunate timing leading to Woman’s death. Loneliness displayed by both characters is the underlying cause of the outcome. These feelings play together to contribute to Man and Woman’s tragic love.

In Catch-22, Joseph Heller uses paradoxes, selfishness, self-destruction, and miscommunication to satirize and provoke changes in war and the military establishment through a pilot, Yossarian, whose only goal has become to escape the traps created by bureaucracy before it kills him.

This essay is an investigation of the application from the Zimbardo Stanford Prison Experiment to some similar scenarios that demonstrate the same or similar findings found within the Stamford Prison Experiment that were influenced by external factors and influences. The Stamford Prison Experiment was conducted to investigate how subtle people are to conform to roles of the guard and prisoner in a mock prison environment and if the behaviours were influenced by the environment or by sadistic personalities of guards (McLeod, 2016). There are several factors that influence good guards to not question orders from bad guards and a few of these factors will be outlined in this essay. The first topic that will be discussed is the similarities of

outcomes. Just as in the single Prisoner’s Dilemma, the prisoners are looking for the best results

There’s no denying that there are a substantial amount of Americans behind bars today, and with the continued erosion of biblically grounded morals in today’s society, it should come as no surprise that there will continue to be evil people, in a progressively darkening world. In the article “The Prison Problem” written by David Brooks, for The New York Times, he goes over some different causations to the steady number of persons behind bars in the prison system. He states however “The Drug war is not even close to being the primary driver behind the sharp rise in incarceration.” (Brookes 5) Putting to silence one of the many incorrect beliefs about the prison system, and how there are so many people being sent to prison. It

intimacy of the structure of the musical as an ensemble cast and group. It seems to me

(Belton) As the movie goes on these registers will shift from back and forth. What makes this film so distinctive, is that the music is a part of the plot of the movie. Dom is an actor who has to make the transition from silent films to a film where there is audio which includes singing as well. A huge part of the narrative is the creation of this musical, and how they are able to put together this movie and make it successful.

The Prisoner's Dilemma has a large influence from subjectivity. While the objectively ideal situation would be for both prisoners to "cooperate," that is to stick to the story they both created before interrogation, each prisoner is driven by subjectivity in regards to personal self interests should they choose to "rat each other out." Previous experiences, such as one prisoner having felt slighted by the other prisoner in a previous encounter, may force the prisoner's decision to divvy out retribution through "justice" to mend wrongdoing by turning his co-criminal

Changing the classic Prisoner's Dilemma to include more than two players and multiple rounds does not really affect the best individual strategy, though it does change the odds somewhat. Instead of making the choice more complex, though, these changes actually make the most rational individual strategy even more clearly rational and strongly reasoned. Though a situation where all players defect yields the worst possible overall outcome, an individual situation where one has cooperated but others have defected yields the worst possible individual outcome. Multiple players entering the game with the same reward structure actually increases the odds that a choice to cooperate will result in a score of 0 rather than a score of 3, as any single choice to defect by any of the other players would trigger a 0 score and the more players there are the more chances there are the one will choose to defect. Multiple rounds would also not alter the decision regardless of the specific rules of the game. If the game continued round after successive round with all of the same players, it would likely only take a few rounds before everyone followed the lead of any initial defectors and defected themselves as a way to minimize losses. If the game ends as soon as someone defects (which makes the most sense given the original situation, because as soon as one prisoner defects all others would be turned in for harsh punishment), the incentive to defect in the first round

In 1932, Jennes conducted one of the earliest conformity experiments. Jennes took 101 psychology students, divided them into groups of three, and asked them to work together to estimate how many beans were in a glass bottle that contained 811 white beans. The students would come up with their own individual answer and then after discussing it with the group, would have the opportunity to change their answer. Jennes discovered that nearly all of the students had chosen to change their answers after the group discussion, and that the answers led further into the average median of the estimates. His experiment demonstrated the power of conformity in a relatively low-pressure environment, and the effects of “informational social influence”. In the Stanford Prison Experiment, the object of the experiment was to observe how readily volunteers would conform to their roles as prisoners or guards in a prison-setting. And to do this, Zimbardo transformed Stanford’s psychology building basement into a makeshift prison, and asked volunteers to study the psychological effects of life in prison. 10 prisoner roles and 11 guard roles were assigned to healthy male college students. As the prison days commenced and continued, the prisoner’s dependence and the guard’s aggressiveness grew in proportion. Abuse against prisoners escalated, with various cases of emotional/mental breakdown from prisoners resulting in the need for psychological care, in less than one week. Like the Milgram

This puzzle illustrates a problem between both prisoner and group rationality, if both prisoner keep mute silence, they could land in jail for a year but if the result couldn’t satisfy each rationality because whatever fellow conspirator does, the best choice of both is to confess. Obviously, if the both of suspects maintain silence, they could only lock in jail for two years, but this result can not satisfy the individual rationality because whatever his accomplice does, the decsion of the suspect is confess. Any group members chase logical self-interest may all end up creating conflict than a group whose members act awkward to rational self-interest. However, if the payoffs are not supposed to constitute self-interest, any group whose members

The Prisoner’s Dilemma is a concept that a myriad of fans of crime shows such as NCIS, CSI, Criminal Minds, and Numbers can appreciate and understand to some extent. What choice do you make? Do you hold to the thieves’ code? Do you try to save your butt? What choice does our human nature dictate we make?

She starts the song as the “singer in the song” and as the performance progresses, she talks to the audience directly and signal them to sing along with her and she becomes “the singer on the stage”. She creates the tension between the implied story and the real one, she enact the person in her song, as if she was breaking up with someone on live stage. Frith points out that pop singers are well aware of the tension between an implied story and the real one and they use this tension to their advantage (209). Her addressing the audience proves another one of Frith’s theories, that the best performers address their audience and manipulate them, to their will (209). Lipa manages to do that, by addressing the audience and encouraging them to copy her moves. She is also able to get the audience to perform with her, due to the nature of the song being relatable to the listeners. She perform the song, and the story in the song, so that the audience could picture themselves instead of her. It states that “listeners putting ourselves in the picture or commonly, laying the performance over our memories of situations and relationships” (211). The listeners could be seen, singing along and copying her moves and expressions on