Stanford Prison Experiment 1971 Dr. Philp Zimbardo

The experimental study that I chose to write about is the Stanford Prison Experiment, which was run by Phillip Zimbardo. More than seventy applicants answered an ad looking for volunteers to participate in a study that tested the physiological effects of prison life. The volunteers were all given interviews and personality tests. The study was left with twenty-four male college students. For the experiment, eighteen volunteers took part, with the other volunteers being on call. The volunteers were then divided into two groups, guards and prisoners, randomly assigned by coin flips. The experiment began on August 14th, 1971 in the basement of Stanford’s psychology building. To create the prison cells for the prisoners, the doors were taken

The Stanford Prison Experiment was very strange. When one of the prisoners said “they were out of control,” I thought about an authoritarian leader- someone that controls every aspect of a person’s life. I think Zimbardo, creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment, and the guards were being an authoritarian leader. I thought it was disturbing that some of the people that were given the guards position only said “yes” to participate in the experiment because they needed a job and thought that the Prison Experiment would be more entertaining. I think it was weird that being in this experiment changed the “prisoners” physically and mentally. In the Stanford Prison Experiment video, it mentioned the electric shock experiment that was done to people

Summary of the Stanford Prison Experiment. The stanford prison experiment is an investigation of how people will adhere to the cliché prisoner and guard roles in a simulated prison. According to Stanford Prison Experiment. Retrieved from https://www.dowellwebtools.com/tools/lp/Bo/psyched/17/Stanford_Prison_Experiment Philip Zimbardo the head researcher and acting prison warden says, "The purpose [of the experiment] was to understand the development of norms and the effects of roles, labels, and social expectations in a simulated prison environment. " What followed was an unimaginable series of events that appeared to bring out the worst in both the prisoners and the guards.

The Stanford Prison Experiment was created in 1971 and was led by psychologist Philip Zimbardo. Twenty-four male college students participated and were randomly chosen to be a prisoner or guard. Zimbardo was the prison warden. The prisoners were blindfolded and brought to the basement of the psychology building that had become a mock prison. The experiment was testing the effects of prison on the guards and prisoners.

The Zimbardo prison experiment was a study of human responses to captivity, dehumanization and its effects on the behavior on authority figures and inmates in prison situations. Conducted in 1971 the experiment was led by Phlilip Zimbardo. Volunteer College students played the roles of both guards and prisoners living in a simulated prison setting in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.

The Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford prison experiment has to be one of the cruelest and disturbing experiments I have witnessed since the Milgram experiment. This experiment was pushed far beyond its means and went extremely too far. I know experiments in 1971 weren’t as thorough and strategic as today's but I know today's rules and regulations never allow cruel and unusual punish just to test out one’s theory’s. I don’t believe criminologists should be permitted to conduct replications of Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford prison experiment. I also know that the ACJS and other organizations who set the rules and guidelines for experiments would not promote or condone an experiment that is dangerous and is unethical such as Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford prison experiment. There were no boundaries or a level

Groupthink can be defined as a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in irrational decision-making. In 1971, twenty-four psychologically stable men took part in a trial known as The Stanford Prison Experiment. The purpose of the experiment was to prove that an individual’s perception of their own power is heavily influenced by social context and societal expectations of their role. The men involved in the experiment were assigned either the role of a prisoner or a guard to represent positions in society, both with power and without. More specifically, the conductors of The Stanford Prison Experiment focused on analyzing the different behavioral

In 1971, this experiment was initiated by Prof Philip Zimbardo, who is the psychology professor of the Stanford University. He designed this experiment was for the purpose of the study of human behavior when good people were put into an evil environment. He wanted to study what motivate the human behavior if the environment people stay controls their behaviors or their behavior are leaded by people’s insight capacity which are their moralities and values.

The conclusion of Stanford Prison experiment was shocking because the participants were normal people just like us therefore the experiment made us question that if we were the guards, could we do the same thing? Dr. Zimbardo later explained that the main reason of guard’s behaviors was the role they played which later shaped their attitudes.Guards had power over prisoners.They had sticks,handcuffs, sun glasses. Those materials were also important factors to see and understand the guard’s behaviors. When we look at the Stanford Prison experiment and it’s conclusions , we see a lot from the real life. We can explain police brutality and excessive use of force looking at the Stanford Prison Experiment. Polices have a power over civilians ,

The Stanford prison experiment occurred in 1973. It was a research study conducted by Philip zimbardo to test his theory situational variables can be a powerful determinant of an individual's behavior.The study consisted of 24 males selected participants. Volunteers will promise $15 a day to participate in the study which would last two weeks. During the study the participants were randomly divided into two groups which were inmates and guards. The expensive place in the basement of the staffing University and what Philip made to look like a simulated prison. The inmates were randomly taken into custody and experience the full intake procedure that real criminals have to endure. Philip used tactics to The individualize and mates by stripping

The Stanford prison experiment was unique because they wanted to watch and learn the behaviors of a prisoner and a prison guard, observing the effects they found some pretty disturbing things among the students. Dr. Philip Zimbardo and his colleagues at Stanford University stayed true to what they believed, and they did what they felt they needed to do to find a set of results for their simulation. Unfortunately they where swallowed into the experiment, when they became the roles, just as the students where. So from their point of view I want to say that what they where doing was ethical, and being that the prison experiment was stopped before its half way mark showed that they realized that it was time to call it quits. Dr. Zimbardo noticed

Anyone could be good or evil, it all depends on the situation that influences a person to act a certain way. Dr. Zimbardo a renowned Psychologist at Stanford University has published numerous books, wrote many journals and articles, and was the former Chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP). Though, he is most known for The Stanford Prison Experiment, which took place in 1971 in the basement of Stanford University. According to Zimbardo (2013), “…was a classic demonstration of the power of social situations to distort personal identities...” This study became a basis for how ordinary people are naturally predisposed to abusing power when it is given to them (Erin Brodwin, 2015). In the experiment the twenty-one volunteers

If I was in charge of an experiment like the Stanford Prison Experiment, I think that I would have conducted something like that. I don’t see any moral reasoning why not to, all the participants were voluntary and there was nothing illegal being conducted and extremely valuable data has been extracted from it so I do not see the point of steering clear of this type of experiment. I think a good follow on study might have been a roll reversal, would the inmates have taken a different approach to the guard duties knowing how they were treated while inmates or would they have acted even more aggressive?

The speaker of this lecture was Philip Zimbardo. He made the experiment, Stanford Prison Experiment. I learned this experiment and had interested in him. Searching this experiment, I saw Philip Zimbardo’s lecture of time efficiency and time perspective. I wanted to learn more psychology knowledge which researched by him. So I was interested and I watched it.

This report on the Stanford Prison Experiment will define the ethical issues related to prisoner treatment and prison culture in a mock scenario created 1971. The findings of this study define the inclination towards corruption and riotous behavior within the overarching relationship between guard and the prisoners. In a short period of time,. The prisoners became hostile and sought to start a riot in order to free themselves from abuses of the prison guards. In some instances, the issue of role-playing limited to reality of the event, but the ethical issues related to issue of prison corruption became evident in the study. The Stanford Prison Experiment provided some important aspects on how good people can became violent lawbreakers within the orison system. In essence, the ethical and experimental conditions of the Stanford Prison experiment define the corrupting culture of prisons in American society during the early 1970s.