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less likely to use excessive force, last longer and will in the long run invest more with the community because they are more prone to listen. Minorities Minorities are also prone to the double standard. In 2008, blacks were more likely than white and Hispanics to experience use of force. An estimated 84% who experienced use of force reported that the police acted

Philip Zimbardo was interested to see the impact of situational and environmental variables on human behavior. He created an artificial prison to see if the variables of prison can cause abusive behavior. He selected 24 participants, predominantly white and mentally stable, to roleplay as guards and prisoners. The experiment showed how an environment can change a person and a lot about the power of authority. We learned that situations can cause a person to have a different behavior. We also learned

Describe & evaluate psychological research into obedience Obedience is a compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another’s authority (Oxforddictionaries, n.d). Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist, known for his experiment on obedience. This was taken place in the 1960’s while he was completing his professorship at Yale University (wikipedia.org, 2015). Milgram’s (1963) study of obedience was a laboratory study to investigate how far people will go in obeying

conflict between obedience to authority and one's own conscience. Through the experiments, Milgram discovered that most people would go against their own decisions of right and wrong to complete the requests of an authority figure. In the article “The Stanford Prison Experiment”, Philip G. Zimbardo also tested the theory of people’s obedience to authority by conducting an experiment where the guards would jokingly tell the prisoners to do something, however the prisoners would do what they were ordered

During the last few weeks of my senior year of high school, I was hanging out with a few friends; it was late at night and we were on our way to a nearby park. Out of sheer boredom, we started playing pranks on one another. Some of the pranks were downright awful. In one instance, my friends decided to hide in a nearby bush and scare people who walked by. Initially, I was against pranking people, but reluctantly agreed because I did not want to be known as the “killjoy.” One of the people we scared

he was in an adjoining room. The unsuspecting subject of the experiment, the "teacher," read lists of words that tested the learner's memory. Each time the learner got one wrong, which he intentionally did, the teacher was instructed by a man in a white lab coat to deliver a shock. With each wrong answer the voltage went up. From the other room came recorded and convincing protests from the learner — even though no shock was actually being administered. The results of Milgram's experiment made

In 1971, psychology professor Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment led by a team of researchers which involved twenty-four male participants who were predominantly white and of the middle class. The goal of the experiment was to test the hypothesis that the inherited personality traits of prison guards and actual prisoners are the main cause of violent and abusive behaviours in prisons. The selection method involved intentionally excluding anybody who had a criminal background, psychological impairment

What can social psychology teach us about what happened at Abu Ghraib? By Mandy Stead During the Iraq war that between 2003 and 2006, the united states army committed a series of human rights violations against prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison near Bagdad. The violations included murder, sexual and physical abuse, rape, torturer, sodomy, humiliating and dehumanizing prisoners. In 2004 the abuse that was carried out was exposed by the publication of images that were taken by the soldiers that carried

The Stanford Prison Experiment was a study done involving college students who were placed in a prison simulation and observed in the roles of both guards and prisoners. At the time of the study in 1971, it was a very controversial experiment, most likely due to both the nature of the experiment and the results, including the early dismissal of some of the students. In the following pages, this experiment will be examined from many different angles. The first angle that this paper will look

HOW IMPORTANT IS THE CONCEPT OF SITUATED KNOWLEDGES TO THE CRITICAL EVALUATION OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY? ILLUSTRATE ESSAY WITH REFERENCE TO TWO TOPICS OF RESEARCH IN DD307 This essay will explore the concept of situated knowledges, and assess the importance of this concept to the critical evaluation of social psychological topics. The concept of situated knowledges is used as an interrogative theme to assist in evaluating knowledge produced in research. All knowledge produced, is situated historically