The Stanford Prison Experiment

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nineteen seventy run psychology or stanford university among present a screw driver all social psychology

experiments uncontroversial

shortly after i finish this there is a slightly lower price range so happy then

the disease

is it is now you can take or something he that he set of their

load of having done the most and that the clothes study

although this experiment is over three years or

during power has been underscore that set up great

we don't really wasn't really

it would be told to run directly somewhat longer

there were trained their of using titanium

you're looking at this situation thinking

they can tone as the one

and if it would have been for those programs

no one would have ever believed

first all the pictures in it is this sensitivity reduction strongly because i do that

i didn't before i didn't this type of situation i knew was going on my

mind

this score strikingly similar

to the photographs that we take me residing in the present study

we didn't do any stuff that you see a drive you get like five or

something like that certainly subjected to all kinds of humiliation

i don't know stuff so

given time we could last year

when the images of use and or to have a group revealed immediately military one

on the defensive setting

it's a few bad apples

when we see somebody doing bad things we assume they're that people begin

but what we know in our study is they were

set of social psychological variables

that can make ordinary people do things say never could imagine doing

i agree ordinary people perpetrated extraordinary you use

to understand why

it helps to reach back to the lessons of some borders experiment

how people respond to occlusion but without clear o

i think she everybody else who came down into that situation that can happen to

that situation

since this was an experiment

that in this way

it became

just

money

we frankly didn't anticipate what was gonna happen

we try to really test the power the environment to change transform otherwise normal people

much is known from had changed were transformed otherwise normal people in obedience situation we

wanted to do it in a question like situation

over seventy volunteered models expert

they completed a battery of psychological tests

we pick two does twenty four with the most normal modes health

have to be guards have gone a person

it's like flipping a coin and heads this once a car that's in the present

at the beginning this no difference

and i nine so people or in youtube

when we were given our jobs guard issue for which was a plane sort of

course

and then we gave them the symbols the power handcuffs a whistle billy club than

the other thing we gave them or

still reflecting sunglasses

when you have your sunglasses on the because rivals i think that anytime you put

on what essential be ask your identity

the and it allows you just behave in ways that you would not have to

ask

to make it more realistic i had a range but this how well the police

department to make my the rest

while the rest was a surprise to me identical to what's actually station but it

was gonna go through a booking process the guards the input blindfold

strength and naked

and then they put in addresses spock's with no wonder

each had a number that place their name had no the number they can only

be before divided number and they had a change on one foot

what they have to remind them at all times of the loss of freedom so

all these things produces a sense but not

or

on the first i said this is not that work that are spelled or would

giving orders and makes a okay lineup every feature number this process giggling i one

and then a very interesting you have been the initial and presses name john wayne

wild west cowboy begins to be more extreme

i decided i would become worse most intimidating present or arousal

i will so vastly more so that people and i'll try to see how far

can take for somebody say okay

we don't have to things like pushups we would have to sing thing at the

beginning we protest at some reactions we do things to your to the guards

words already with talent royal

and the guards had to decide how they we're gonna handle that they had to

decide it without a ramp i mean again this is not a program study in

which we were standing over them telling them what to do

and it again to see the presence behavior as a kind of an affordable for

and the approach

but the channel aspects

just for a crank it up

nobody should

the professors forty year

use the present work

it's not stopping

was first evening ability

the prisons rebel

the barricade themselves in their cells instead we use the camera they took of the

numbers they didn't want to be the individual started cursing the cards to deface

and you keep turning point was the cards began to think of them as dangerous

and so that art form and use fire extinguishers

to the doors down practice phrases outstrip the nakedness actually broke

actually physical way

from that point on this study was

as remarkable a series of advances i ever seen

words with real laboratory for boredom

to watch human nature transformed into a very

rapid way

in the phrase a very powerful situation people really suffering guards a terrible things presence

they punished by putting them in solitary confinement which was a small closet units why

would stand but you know i couldn't see it was darkened and

actually

every hour every there's a teeny little bit more an increment understanding of taunting the

prisoners they're stepping a account something that they're stepping

i don't think from one minute next the people who are in a sea change

and different

right

and then the next key thing happened besides rebellion presentate six one to me was

the first one to have an emotional breakdown

we have no i go i any

i don't know

not the time if you would question about the fact that was having which

we must be

must be we

words are fake

i wouldn't use of what i was doing could actually call someone breakdown

was just a some sort of getting larger objects

let's be like puppeteers your boss make these people

the guards now began to escalate the use of someone had presents thing at all

levels within s

taught humiliate deflated faces at each other and eight sre arbitrary show how the present

they keep thinking of more or

unusual things to do

and very soon after the fourth day things we consider in section

i

if you have formally sort of humility example

that you want to get them and those things if there were the biggest fears

was have sexual hangups so that was part of that for to humiliate

i

i

the guard a new that had the coin come up has read tales they would

have had to dress on rather than the uniform when they do that

so they certainly due to produce a word being mistreated i do nothing wrong to

deserve the mystery

and yet the roles themselves was a powerful and the environment itself so powerful

that they can be punishing group has no i don't something wrong i we were

told shall something about how this about charisma

in the time i one along with and i'm thinking

for this matter we don't believe this we can go along she had

i nine nice breakdown everyday after that another present broke down sampling

broke down mean

extreme stress reaction rereleased another one when there is no nobody who's in that study

could deny that the prisoner breakdowns we're january they were they were scary to see

they were upsetting to us we they were unexpectedly they were they were very

very clearly real are some level we understood or that something was happening we were

no longer control with the averaging people we didn't quite have a grasp on what

to do about it one of the mistakes we may we didn't we had built

in time to step back

and to looking at what was happening whatever so it was mystery we were quarrelling

events are working place to

well understood the study some part it wouldn't by to draw recent psychology graduate christina

matched like to this to mark present

i had heard bits and pieces

a from feel that was going on

and when i was found that he really was kind of

and they're really got to me was when someone cards to the prisoners down the

hall an answer

she looks out and sees aligned of prisoners

with paperbacks over their heads each one holding one shows the leading down the hall

and feel comes over a block you know that

note that down in something testing you know again it was the dehumanising in teaneck

just like watching and she said it's terrible what you do intervals voice courteous are

somewhat

she runs out

and furious something you know what this is you know run outside this big arguments

like this is this is dynamics of human behaviour that's fasting how situational some giving

all the psychological bases and what kind of psychologists are you don't appreciate this

and she said i don't understand

you're strange i mean i don't understand how did not

see what i see i mean you know you were caring compassionate person i'm going

from one can think something's gone wrong here

and then the next thing she said which had you think is you know i'm

not sure i wanna you know have anything to do with this is the real

you and that was like a slap in the face because what you're saying is

you changed

you know the power the situation has transform you from the person like what i

do this person that i don't know

that one i said well you write we got and it

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