st pris exp
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- Zimbardo's SPE
- Procedure
- Mock prison basement in Stanford university.
- students were randomly assigned role of prisoner or guard
- prisoners = heavily regulated. Routines and rules and referred to by number
- guards had uniforms and clubs and mirrored shades
- Findings
- guard behaviour became a threat to prisoners and so 12 day study became 6
- guards constantly harassed prisoners
- prisoner went on hunger strike and was force fed
- Conclusions
- guards and prisoners conformed to their roles
- power of the situation to influence peoples behaviours
- Evaluation
- Lack of realism
- performance of participants based on stereotypes of how they should behave
- however data collected showed 90% convos were ab prison life showing situation was very real for participants = high internal validity
- Dispositional influences
- DI = personality and individual characteristic
- Zim overexaggerated influence of behaviour - only a third of guards acted in a brutal manner, the rest were fair and sympathised w the prisoners
- Control over variables
- Lab setting - high control = high IV = more confident in drawing concs on influence of roles on behaviour
- Example: roles were randomly assianged so indiv personality differences wouldn't be an explanation of the findings
- Ethical issues
- did not consider well-being of participants enough
- put his own interests first
- deception - prisoners were arrested in their homes
- Lack of research support
- Reicher and Haslam's 2006 replication found the prisoners take control due to SIT
- challenges Zim conclusions ab conformity and social roles because guards didn't form shared social identity and cohesive group
- Lack of realism
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