Reicher and Haslam
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- Reicher and Haslam
- Background
- Zimbardos experiment
- Highly unethical
- Zimbardos experiment
- Aim
- If dominant group members will identify with their group from the start and impose power.
- If subordinate group members will challenge inequalities and identify all together when relations are seen as impermeable.
- Method
- Social psychological field study/lab experiment.
- Independent variables
- The permeability of group boundaries
- Promotion - day 3
- Legitimacy of group divisions
- Day 6 - told that the guards weren't superiors
- The permeability of group boundaries
- Dependent vriables
- Social variables
- Psychometric tests
- Video/audio recordings
- Clinical variables
- Cortisone levels in mouth swabs
- Social variables
- Participants and selection
- 332 reducesd 10 15
- Leaflts and advertisement
- 3 stage screening process
- Afull weekend of assessment by independent clinical psychologists.
- Psychosymetric tests that measure social and clinical variables
- Medical and character references were obtained
- Measurements and considerations
- Controlled measureements
- Pure random
- Sample considerations
- Ethical reason-Only well adjusted and pro social people inclused
- Controlled measureements
- Induction procedures
- Guards
- 5 participants invited to hotel to sort out of prisoner timetable
- Given no guidelines and were taught ethically prepared rights
- They were then shown around the prison and given uniforms
- Prisoners
- Arrived one at a time and had head shaved
- Given a t-shirt with a 3 printed digit on, loose trousers and slimsy flipslops (to remove identity)
- Given no instructions apart from the prison rules
- Given a t-shirt with a 3 printed digit on, loose trousers and slimsy flipslops (to remove identity)
- Arrived one at a time and had head shaved
- Guards
- Safeguards
- British psychological societies approval
- Clinical, medical and background screening
- A comprehensive consent form
- Two independent psychologists monitoring
- Paramedics constantly on stand by
- Results
- Prisoners became more empowered as experiment went on
- Guards were not a united body
- Some didn't like the power as they felt unworthy
- Prisoners decided to test guards (cigette demands, throws food)
- Self-governing self-discipline commune
- intro of new member gave hem an alternative path
- Commune formed- begun to break apart (refusal to work) and lack of leadership
- Started tyranny
- Experiment stopped
- Started tyranny
- Conclusions
- Guards failed to develop a shared identity
- No cognitive alternatives left for the participants - acceptance to authority regime
- After day 3, prisoners stress levels went down whilst guards went up
- New regime embraces inequalities
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- High levels of control
- Lots on ethical safeguards
- Produces quantitative and qualitative data
- Untitled
- Weaknesses
- Lacks ecological validity
- Televised
- Artificial
- Play up to cameras
- What the BBC wants
- Demand characteristics
- Lacks ecological validity
- Strengths
- Background
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