Zimbardo
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- Zimbardo's Prison Experiment
- Aim
- Investigate effects of being assigned the role of prison guard or prisoner
- Procedure
- 24 men physically and mentally fit selected
- Participants responded to article. Volunteered paid $15 per day
- Prison created in Stanford basement. 3 small cells and solitary confinement
- Randomly allocated guard or prisoner
- Arrested at house then stripped sprayed and de loused
- 3 times a day prisoners lined up for count tested on knowledge of rules and ID
- Findings
- Normal students started to believe allocated positions
- Experiment stopped after 6 days instead of 2 weeks because of pathological reactions
- 5 prisoners realised earlier due to extreme emotional depression
- Some guards engaged in creative cruelty and harrassment
- Conclusion
- All participants took on the roles even sooner than imagined
- Evaluation
- Everyone was debriefed multiple times
- Lack of fully informed consent by participants
- Ethics- Level of humiliation and distress experienced by prisoners
- The prisoners were not protected from psychological harm
- Results were unpredictable so couldn't be full consent for psychological damage
- Aim
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