Zusammenfassung der Ressource
conformity to social roles: Zimbardo's research
- the Stanford prison experiment
- do prison guards act brutally due to their personality or the situation?
- procedure
- basement of the psychology department
at Stanford university
- volunteer sample
- psychological tests - emotionally stable
- randomly assigned the roles
- prisoners
- arrested at home
- wore uniform - included number
- guards
- uniform - handcuffs,
club, keys, mirror shades
- complete power over prisoners
- findings
- started slowly
- lasted 6 days instead of 14
- prisoners rebelled so guards fought back
- harassed prisoners, frequent
head counts, had to say their
number
- more brutal as time went on
- enjoying the power
- conclusions
- people re influenced by situations
- everyone conformed
- evaluation
- control
- full control over the variable
- full control over who was picked (emotionally stable)
- tried to rule out individual personality differences
- so high internal validity
- lack of realism
- Banuazizi & Mohavedi
- participants were acting roles
- based on stereotypes
- one of the guards claimed to act like
a character form cool hand luke
- however
- Zimbardo found 90% of
conversation were abut
prison
- role of dispositional influences
- Fromm
- Zimbardo exaggerated results
- 1/3 of guards were brutal
- 1/3 stuck to the rules
- 1/3 helped the prisoners
- evaluation +
- lack of research support
- Reicher & Haslam
- recreated the experiment
- very different results
- prisoners took control as they shared social identity
- ethical issues
- major issue
- psychological and physical harm
- wouldn't let people leave more bothered about results