Conformity to social roles: Zimbardo's research
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- Conformity to social roles: Zimbardo's research
- Findings and conclusions
- Guards took up their roles with enthusiasm
- Behaviour threatened the prisoners' psychological and physical health
- Two days
- Guards harassed the prisoners constantly by conducting frequent head counts
- Prisoners rebelled against their treatment
- study stopped after 6 days instead of the planned 8
- Guards, prisoners and researchers all conformed to their social roles within the prison
- Guards took up their roles with enthusiasm
- Procedure
- Prisoners' daily routines were heavily regualted
- De-individuation
- 16 rules
- Haney et al. (1973)
- 24 'emotionally stable' students
- Randomly assigned roles of guards or prisoners
- 'Prisoners' arrested in their homes and delivered to the 'prison'
- Randomly assigned roles of guards or prisoners
- Mock prison in the basement of a psychology department at Stanford University
- The brutality of prison guards was the result of sadistic personalities
- Created by the situation
- The brutality of prison guards was the result of sadistic personalities
- Prisoners' daily routines were heavily regualted
- Strength
- Researchers had some control over variables
- Weaknesses
- Formm (1973) - Zimbardo underestimated dispositional influences
- Contradicted by subsequent research
- Lack of realism
- Major ethical issues
- Findings and conclusions
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