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Gypsy
Jennē

Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Guelph
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Apr-25-2007 20:26
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Porky
State of Halcyon....

Registered: Sep 2001
Location: GU13
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| quote: | Originally posted by geroin
Stanford Prison Experiment - Psychology of Imprisonment
The Stanford prison experiment was a psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances of prison life and the effects of imposed social roles on behavior. It was conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University. Undergraduate volunteers played the roles of guards and prisoners living in a mock prison built in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. Prisoners and guards rapidly adapted to their assigned roles, stepping beyond the boundaries of what had been predicted and leading to genuinely dangerous and psychologically damaging situations. One-third of guards were judged to have exhibited "genuine" sadistic tendencies, while many prisoners were emotionally traumatized and two had to be removed from the experiment early. Despite the now highly unsanitary and out of control conditions evident, only one of 50 observers, graduate interviewer Christina Maslach, objected to the experiment. Zimbardo then ended the experiment early.
Ethical concerns surrounding the famous experiment often draw comparisons to the Milgram experiment, which was conducted in 1963 at Yale University by Stanley Milgram, Zimbardo's former high school friend.
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there's a great autobiographical book on the topic of the pyschology of imprisonment (not the experiment)
Man's Search for Meaning - by Viktor Frankl
he talks about his imprisonment at a concentration camp during the holocaust. a very powerful read, i recommend to most of my friends. a short read too, the main autobio is only 100 pages long.

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