Stanford Prison Experiment - 1971
A mind map revising the Stanford Prison experiment in brief.
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- Stanford Prison Experiment
- When?
- 1971
- What is it?
- A Psychological study, 24 healthy volunteers (prisoners) were 'arrested from their homes'. roles of prisoners/ guards was randomly assigned.
- What happened?
- Prisoners and guards split. Rebellion in prisoners. Power crazed guards, beat/humiliated prisoners. on Day 2!
- Guards ordered merely to 'maintain law and order'
- Shut down on Day 6 out of 14
- Prisoners and guards split. Rebellion in prisoners. Power crazed guards, beat/humiliated prisoners. on Day 2!
- Why?
- To study the effects of deindividuation during a power struggle.
- The experiment was supposed to investigate the nature of humans in situations involving degradation and dehumanization.
- What did the results show?
- Zimbardo - "too many normal young men were behaving pathologically as powerless prisoners or as sadistic, all-powerful guards." He added, "At the beginning there were no differences between those assigned to guards or prisoners. In less than a week, there were no similarities among them; they had become totally different creatures."
- Opinions
- Human ire for inequality and maltreatment.
- Relevance to Psychology
- Showing, power differences and their involvement with our animalistic, pathological natures.
- When?
- Zimbardo - "too many normal young men were behaving pathologically as powerless prisoners or as sadistic, all-powerful guards." He added, "At the beginning there were no differences between those assigned to guards or prisoners. In less than a week, there were no similarities among them; they had become totally different creatures."
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