STUDY: ZIMBARDO
AIM: to investigate aggressive behaviour in us prisons, was it personality or conformity to social roles
METHOD:
- 21 emotionally stable men
- randomly assigned to be prisoners or guards
- prisoners were arrested, stripped
Encouraged to conform by:
-uniform -instructions about behaviour
Evaluation
- Haslam and reicher, study found opposite results
- lack of realism
exxagerates social roles
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