Institutional agression - situational forces

Institutions: Police, Security Services + military+ criminal and terrorist groups 

Tow different forces: Situational and individualistic/dispositional forces 

Situational Forces 

Zimbardo: Stanford Prison Study (self selected sampling) 

• 24 male participants- physical and psychological testing, no participant was more agressive than the other
• random allocation of particpants (guards or prisonners) 
• Guards were told not to use physical violence 
• Power of…