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    Yara’s experiment. The topic of this research paper is about is role-playing. The research question is whether people will lose their true identity from playing a role for a limited time. Zimbardo’s prison experiment has brought so many thoughts to many people’s minds. One of these thoughts is a question that is the main reason why Zimbardo did this experiment; which is why would Zimbardo do this experiment? Because people want to know what to do and what to avoid in the future, where ethical

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    effects that came out of the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment. This experiment was designed to shed light on the different psychosocial roles which influence the power has on ordinary people in a prisonlike setting. This psychosocial experiment concluded in several unexpended outcomes compared to the original though behind the initial planning and had to be terminated before the experiment was scheduled to end. The Stanford Prison Experiment In 1971 Philip Zimbardo and his collages Craig

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    Milgram experiment There are many questions as to how and why Hitler convinced a whole population to start a genocide and torture millions and millions of people. Moreover, I am going to talk about an experiment that discovered these kinds of questions. This experiment was made by Stanley Milgram The rules of Milgram experiment is easy, it is simply made to see how far a person could go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. Stanley Milgram, in 1960 went to Harvard to

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    created a radical research named “Stanford Prison Experiment”, in which he managed to help the participants realize what one is capable of doing in order to fulfill our roles in life. Stanford Prison Experiment was conducted in 1971 by Phillip Zimbardo and lasted only six days instead of two weeks, as planned. He chose college aged males who represented average society individuals that came from middle class backgrounds. In this experiment he chose a group who would take on the role of prisoners

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    “Stanford Prison Experiment” Although harm is harm, harm can be measured. From my own point of view, the immunization study with respect to Dr. Wakefield and his 12 colleagues, led to the most harm and it is one of the greatest ethical abuse in the history of scientific research (Rao, S. T. S, Andrade, C, 2011). However, the Stanford prison experiment is as well harmful. It causes psychological trauma on all participants (the researchers inclusive). Moreover, the Standford prison experiment is a worth-doing

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    Zimbardo conducted an experiment called The Stanford Prison Experiment back in 1973. Zimbardo sets out to see the outcome if you create a false prison and get ordinary college students and make half of the students guards and the other half of the students prison inmates how will the volunteers react with their new roles. Zimbardo main points of the prison experiment were to see if the volunteers can handle their new positions. Also another main point of Zimbardo’s experiment was how much the volunteers

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    McLeod, Saul. "Robbers Cave." Experiment / Realistic Conflict Theory. N.p., 2008. Web. 8 Oct. 2016. Muzafer Sherif conducted his world-renowned “Robbers Cave” experiment based on his Realistic Conflict Theory. His theory; about how negative stereotypes, prejudices, and conflict between groups forms, was proven in the experiment. The experiment is as follows. In 1935 Twenty-two white, middle class, twelve year old, Protestant boys were put in a 200 acre camp and divided into one of two groups (none

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    main objective of the experiment was not only to see how obedient a person would be on killing someone else, but also to see if they took responsibility for killing a person or blaming it on the instructor, the person giving them the commands. For this experiment they needed 40 males at the ages of 20 and 50. Then they would be pared up with a partner. They would be given sticks to determine who would be the teacher and who would be the learner. This part of the experiment was always rigged, meaning

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    The Stanford Prison Experiment had many issues that started a chain of problems within the experiment. Ethical issues that challenged the subjects who partook in the experiment moral values and behavior. Many of the steps taken in the experiment were unethical, one being the fact that the subjects were arrested without consent. Furthermore, the subjects were dehumanized and taunted, and humiliated which tested them physically and mentally. They were told to do push-ups as a punishment and often

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    of the experiments. After she had finished explaining, they started the tests by combining vinegar to the baking

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