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Stanford Prison Experiment
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I wish I could've taken part in this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KXy8CLqgk4


"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 behaviour. 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 that was constructed 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."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Prison_Experiment

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Re: Stanford Prison Experiment [Re: it stars saddam]
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Would you rather have been prisoner or guard? I'm familiar with this, bit of a fucked up experiment. Like a more extreme version of the milgram experiment.


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"There are only two states of being: Too much and not enough"

Isnt the war on drugs supposed to reduce harm? So far all i see are casualties.

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Re: Stanford Prison Experiment [Re: j3ckyl]
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j3ckyl said:
Would you rather have been prisoner or guard?


I don't care; the roles were chosen by flipping a coin. I would've just liked to have been involved somehow.

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Re: Stanford Prison Experiment [Re: it stars saddam]
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Re: Stanford Prison Experiment [Re: it stars saddam]
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Sensory deprivation is a sure fire way of breaking people, I remember reading about some of the methods the guards employed such as assigning rights over the use of a bucket instead of a toilet and constantly waking up the prisoners every little while so they would suffer sleep deprivation.


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"There are only two states of being: Too much and not enough"

Isnt the war on drugs supposed to reduce harm? So far all i see are casualties.

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Re: Stanford Prison Experiment [Re: it stars saddam]
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Learned about this shit in a few different psych classes. Interesting, to say the least.

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Re: Stanford Prison Experiment [Re: DNKYD]
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Yeah, PSY 101.

Interesting nonetheless.


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...the whole experience is (and is as) a profound piece of knowledge.  It is an indellible experience; it is forever known.  I have known myself in a way I doubt I would have ever occurred except as it did.

Smith, P.  Bull. Menninger Clinic (1959) 23:20-27; p. 27.

...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely.

Osmond, H.  Annals, NY Acad Science (1957) 66:418-434; p.436

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Re: Stanford Prison Experiment [Re: DNKYD]
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Phillip Zimbardo, the man behind the experiment, has recently released a new book, titled the Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil.  It was just released this Tuesday, and is currently on its way to my house from amazon.  I've been anticipating this book's release for months.

From amazon:

"Psychologist Zimbardo masterminded the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, in which college students randomly assigned to be guards or inmates found themselves enacting sadistic abuse or abject submissiveness. In this penetrating investigation, he revisits—at great length and with much hand-wringing—the SPE study and applies it to historical examples of injustice and atrocity, especially the Abu Ghraib outrages by the U.S. military. His troubling finding is that almost anyone, given the right "situational" influences, can be made to abandon moral scruples and cooperate in violence and oppression. (He tacks on a feel-good chapter about "the banality of heroism," with tips on how to resist malign situational pressures.) The author, who was an expert defense witness at the court-martial of an Abu Ghraib guard, argues against focusing on the dispositions of perpetrators of abuse; he insists that we blame the situation and the "system" that constructed it, and mounts an extended indictment of the architects of the Abu Ghraib system, including President Bush. Combining a dense but readable and often engrossing exposition of social psychology research with an impassioned moral seriousness, Zimbardo challenges readers to look beyond glib denunciations of evil-doers and ponder our collective responsibility for the world's ills."



http://www.amazon.com/Lucifer-Effect-Understanding-Good-People/dp/1400064112/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-7369873-2670536?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175195828&sr=1-1

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