The Stanford prison experiment - Zimbardo
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- Created on: 07-10-18 15:48
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- The Stanford prison experiment - Zimbardo
- Aim
- to look into the causes of brutality in prisons
- method
- 1. Zimbardo set up a mock prison, and students who were emotionally stable took part
- 2. the students were randomly assigned the roles of either prisoner or guard
- 3. the 'prisoners' were arrested form their homes and blindfolded, *****-searched and deloused
- 4. they were then issues a uniform and called by number that had been assigned to them
- 5. their routines were heavily regulated and they had 16 rules which they had to abide by
- 6. the guards had complete power over them
- results
- study was stopped after only 6 days instead of the intended 14 days
- the guards enforced authoritarian measures to the point of subjecting some prisoners to psychological torture
- after 2 days some prisoners began to rebel by tearing their clothes, shouting and swearing at the guards
- guards would play prisoners up against eahother
- it affected Zimbardo himself in his role as he let the abuse continue
- one prisoner released of 1st day as showed signs of psychological disturbance
- one prisoner went on hunger strike
- two more prisoners were released by the 4th day
- guards identified more and more with their the longer it went on
- Aim
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