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This 4 page paper considers the findings of the infamous Standford Prison Experiment and Milgram’s Shock Experiment. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Human interaction varies in accordance with a number of factors. Not surprisingly, this interaction is one of the favorite subject matters of psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists,
and anthropologists alike. Several noteworthy experiments have in fact been performed to evaluate how our behavior can be affected by things such as the power we hold, or perceive
ourselves as holding, over others. The Stanford Prison Experiment is perhaps the most infamous of these types of experiments. The impact of factors such as power not only
affects those with the power but also those that are on the other end of the power scale, the prisoners. What we learn, however, is that we can become
imprisoned by not just the behavior of other people but by our own internal shortcomings. The Stanford Prison Experiment was conducted in 1971
by Stanford University psychologist Philip K. Zimbardo. Students were placed into a simulated prison environment. The experiment had to be ended after only six days due to the
tremendous psychological effect it was having on the prisoners. Students exhibited a diversity of psychological maladaptions. The "guards" took on sadistic tendencies and the "prisoners" showed extreme signs of
stress and depression. Zimbardo used the analogy of "prisons of the mind" and suggested that such prisons are created, populated, and perpetuated on a daily basis in human populations
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