Conformity to social roles
- Created by: ninaradford
- Created on: 07-09-17 19:53
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- Conformity to social roles
- Evaluation
- Ethics
- Ethics comittee
- No deception as told their rights were suspended
- High emotional distress
- Still debriefed years later
- Abu Ghraib
- Military prison in Iraq used to torture prisoners
- US soldiers
- Situational factors - unrelenting boredom, lack of training and no accountability
- Not automatic shift
- Chose how to behave and didn't blindly conform
- Not all were sadiistic
- Population validity
- US male students
- Cant be applied
- Males vs Females
- Individualist vs Collectivist
- Ethics
- Stanford prison experiment
- Zimbardo & Haney (1973)
- Mock prison in the basement of Stanford University, California.
- 24 participants - 12 guards and 12 prisoners
- Prisoners
- ID numbers
- Prison uniforms
- 3 meals, 3 toilet trips per day and 2 visits per week
- 5 released early due to severe reactions
- Guards
- Uniforms, whistles, clubs and aviators
- Tyrannical and abusive
- Forced prisoners to do degrading activities
- Voluntary unpaid work
- Supposed to be 2 weeks but stopped after 6 days
- BBC prison experiment
- Reicher and Haslam (2006)
- 15 participants divided into 5 groups - 1 guard 2 prisoners
- Didn't conform and prisoners identified and challenged guards
- Power shift caused collapse of prison system
- Evaluation
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