0:00:00nineteen seventy run psychology or stanford university among present a screw driver all social psychology
0:00:10experiments uncontroversial
0:00:12shortly after i finish this there is a slightly lower price range so happy then
0:00:16the disease
0:00:18is it is now you can take or something he that he set of their
0:00:22load of having done the most and that the clothes study
0:00:27although this experiment is over three years or
0:00:29during power has been underscore that set up great
0:00:37we don't really wasn't really
0:00:40it would be told to run directly somewhat longer
0:00:45there were trained their of using titanium
0:00:49you're looking at this situation thinking
0:00:52they can tone as the one
0:00:55and if it would have been for those programs
0:00:59no one would have ever believed
0:01:05first all the pictures in it is this sensitivity reduction strongly because i do that
0:01:12i didn't before i didn't this type of situation i knew was going on my
0:01:16mind
0:01:19this score strikingly similar
0:01:23to the photographs that we take me residing in the present study
0:01:28we didn't do any stuff that you see a drive you get like five or
0:01:32something like that certainly subjected to all kinds of humiliation
0:01:37i don't know stuff so
0:01:40given time we could last year
0:01:44when the images of use and or to have a group revealed immediately military one
0:01:50on the defensive setting
0:01:52it's a few bad apples
0:01:54when we see somebody doing bad things we assume they're that people begin
0:01:59but what we know in our study is they were
0:02:02set of social psychological variables
0:02:05that can make ordinary people do things say never could imagine doing
0:02:09i agree ordinary people perpetrated extraordinary you use
0:02:14to understand why
0:02:16it helps to reach back to the lessons of some borders experiment
0:02:19how people respond to occlusion but without clear o
0:02:29i think she everybody else who came down into that situation that can happen to
0:02:34that situation
0:02:36since this was an experiment
0:02:38that in this way
0:02:40it became
0:02:41just
0:02:42money
0:02:47we frankly didn't anticipate what was gonna happen
0:02:50we try to really test the power the environment to change transform otherwise normal people
0:02:55much is known from had changed were transformed otherwise normal people in obedience situation we
0:03:02wanted to do it in a question like situation
0:03:05over seventy volunteered models expert
0:03:10they completed a battery of psychological tests
0:03:13we pick two does twenty four with the most normal modes health
0:03:17have to be guards have gone a person
0:03:19it's like flipping a coin and heads this once a car that's in the present
0:03:23at the beginning this no difference
0:03:25and i nine so people or in youtube
0:03:29when we were given our jobs guard issue for which was a plane sort of
0:03:35course
0:03:38and then we gave them the symbols the power handcuffs a whistle billy club than
0:03:44the other thing we gave them or
0:03:46still reflecting sunglasses
0:03:49when you have your sunglasses on the because rivals i think that anytime you put
0:03:54on what essential be ask your identity
0:03:57the and it allows you just behave in ways that you would not have to
0:04:02ask
0:04:04to make it more realistic i had a range but this how well the police
0:04:07department to make my the rest
0:04:14while the rest was a surprise to me identical to what's actually station but it
0:04:20was gonna go through a booking process the guards the input blindfold
0:04:25strength and naked
0:04:27and then they put in addresses spock's with no wonder
0:04:32each had a number that place their name had no the number they can only
0:04:36be before divided number and they had a change on one foot
0:04:40what they have to remind them at all times of the loss of freedom so
0:04:44all these things produces a sense but not
0:04:48or
0:04:52on the first i said this is not that work that are spelled or would
0:04:56giving orders and makes a okay lineup every feature number this process giggling i one
0:05:04and then a very interesting you have been the initial and presses name john wayne
0:05:09wild west cowboy begins to be more extreme
0:05:15i decided i would become worse most intimidating present or arousal
0:05:34i will so vastly more so that people and i'll try to see how far
0:05:40can take for somebody say okay
0:05:45we don't have to things like pushups we would have to sing thing at the
0:05:50beginning we protest at some reactions we do things to your to the guards
0:05:59words already with talent royal
0:06:01and the guards had to decide how they we're gonna handle that they had to
0:06:04decide it without a ramp i mean again this is not a program study in
0:06:07which we were standing over them telling them what to do
0:06:09and it again to see the presence behavior as a kind of an affordable for
0:06:13and the approach
0:06:17but the channel aspects
0:06:18just for a crank it up
0:06:20nobody should
0:06:23the professors forty year
0:06:25use the present work
0:06:27it's not stopping
0:06:36was first evening ability
0:06:40the prisons rebel
0:06:42the barricade themselves in their cells instead we use the camera they took of the
0:06:46numbers they didn't want to be the individual started cursing the cards to deface
0:06:52and you keep turning point was the cards began to think of them as dangerous
0:07:00and so that art form and use fire extinguishers
0:07:05to the doors down practice phrases outstrip the nakedness actually broke
0:07:10actually physical way
0:07:14from that point on this study was
0:07:16as remarkable a series of advances i ever seen
0:07:22words with real laboratory for boredom
0:07:25to watch human nature transformed into a very
0:07:29rapid way
0:07:30in the phrase a very powerful situation people really suffering guards a terrible things presence
0:07:37they punished by putting them in solitary confinement which was a small closet units why
0:07:42would stand but you know i couldn't see it was darkened and
0:07:47actually
0:07:50every hour every there's a teeny little bit more an increment understanding of taunting the
0:07:57prisoners they're stepping a account something that they're stepping
0:08:01i don't think from one minute next the people who are in a sea change
0:08:05and different
0:08:09right
0:08:12and then the next key thing happened besides rebellion presentate six one to me was
0:08:16the first one to have an emotional breakdown
0:08:18we have no i go i any
0:08:24i don't know
0:08:36not the time if you would question about the fact that was having which
0:08:41we must be
0:08:42must be we
0:08:44words are fake
0:08:46i wouldn't use of what i was doing could actually call someone breakdown
0:08:51was just a some sort of getting larger objects
0:08:55let's be like puppeteers your boss make these people
0:09:03the guards now began to escalate the use of someone had presents thing at all
0:09:08levels within s
0:09:10taught humiliate deflated faces at each other and eight sre arbitrary show how the present
0:09:17they keep thinking of more or
0:09:20unusual things to do
0:09:22and very soon after the fourth day things we consider in section
0:09:28i
0:09:34if you have formally sort of humility example
0:09:39that you want to get them and those things if there were the biggest fears
0:09:42was have sexual hangups so that was part of that for to humiliate
0:09:53i
0:09:56i
0:09:58the guard a new that had the coin come up has read tales they would
0:10:02have had to dress on rather than the uniform when they do that
0:10:06so they certainly due to produce a word being mistreated i do nothing wrong to
0:10:10deserve the mystery
0:10:12and yet the roles themselves was a powerful and the environment itself so powerful
0:10:17that they can be punishing group has no i don't something wrong i we were
0:10:25told shall something about how this about charisma
0:10:29in the time i one along with and i'm thinking
0:10:31for this matter we don't believe this we can go along she had
0:10:41i nine nice breakdown everyday after that another present broke down sampling
0:10:49broke down mean
0:10:50extreme stress reaction rereleased another one when there is no nobody who's in that study
0:10:56could deny that the prisoner breakdowns we're january they were they were scary to see
0:11:02they were upsetting to us we they were unexpectedly they were they were very
0:11:06very clearly real are some level we understood or that something was happening we were
0:11:12no longer control with the averaging people we didn't quite have a grasp on what
0:11:16to do about it one of the mistakes we may we didn't we had built
0:11:20in time to step back
0:11:23and to looking at what was happening whatever so it was mystery we were quarrelling
0:11:32events are working place to
0:11:43well understood the study some part it wouldn't by to draw recent psychology graduate christina
0:11:54matched like to this to mark present
0:11:56i had heard bits and pieces
0:11:59a from feel that was going on
0:12:03and when i was found that he really was kind of
0:12:07and they're really got to me was when someone cards to the prisoners down the
0:12:12hall an answer
0:12:16she looks out and sees aligned of prisoners
0:12:20with paperbacks over their heads each one holding one shows the leading down the hall
0:12:25and feel comes over a block you know that
0:12:29note that down in something testing you know again it was the dehumanising in teaneck
0:12:34just like watching and she said it's terrible what you do intervals voice courteous are
0:12:39somewhat
0:12:40she runs out
0:12:42and furious something you know what this is you know run outside this big arguments
0:12:47like this is this is dynamics of human behaviour that's fasting how situational some giving
0:12:53all the psychological bases and what kind of psychologists are you don't appreciate this
0:12:59and she said i don't understand
0:13:01you're strange i mean i don't understand how did not
0:13:05see what i see i mean you know you were caring compassionate person i'm going
0:13:08from one can think something's gone wrong here
0:13:11and then the next thing she said which had you think is you know i'm
0:13:16not sure i wanna you know have anything to do with this is the real
0:13:20you and that was like a slap in the face because what you're saying is
0:13:24you changed
0:13:26you know the power the situation has transform you from the person like what i
0:13:30do this person that i don't know
0:13:32that one i said well you write we got and it
0:13:36after only six days doctors important shutdown is explore