Zimbardos study
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- Created on: 16-01-23 16:12
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- zimbardos study
- method
- All young healthy males deemed good mental wellbeing, middle class and privilege areas.
- They volunteered and where randomly assigned roles, 10 guards 11 prisoners
- took place in stranford university basement
- The prisoners were unexpectedly arrested at home, stripped and taken fingerprints, given a uniform and number as to which they were referred to, dehumanise
- guards wore uniforms and wore sunglasses to prevent eye contact, prisoners wore uniforms
- They volunteered and where randomly assigned roles, 10 guards 11 prisoners
- All young healthy males deemed good mental wellbeing, middle class and privilege areas.
- Results
- called off after 6 days
- prisoners rebelled after 2 days
- prisoners became apathetic and submissive to guards, stopped standing up so avoid humiliation and punishment
- guards became too brutal and prisoners were emotionally and mentally breaking down, they went on a hunger strike.
- Evaluation
- limitation
- isnt unrepresentative, all male white from privileged backgrounds
- strength
- ,sintiendo some mind of control and ecological validity
- limitation
- aim
- to see the extent to which people wold conform to social roles
- conclusion
- their reactions may have been extreme since they were conforming to social stereotypes.
- Each role requires different things, if you’re given a new role you change your behaviour to suit it
- de individualisation explains behaviour of guards.
- they became immersed in their roles and lost their sense of identity, acting sadistically
- their reactions may have been extreme since they were conforming to social stereotypes.
- method
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