ZIMBARDO - conformity to social roles

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ZIMBARDO - conformity to social roles

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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