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The Stanford Prison Experiment - Online Term Paper

The Stanford Prison Experiment

This is hard question to answer. I would like to think that I would be a nice guard, having a neutral respectful relationship with the prisoners. On the other hand I think the guards had their own responsibility to appear to be authority figures. The experiment may have went differently if all the guards were more passive or timid. Truthfully, there’s just no way of knowing which guard I would be. One of the guards in the experiment said that he never dreamed he would be capable of treating people that way but in that setting, under those stressful circumstances he did and seemed to be ashamed to a degree. 3) It could’ve been a number of things. They may not have wanted to seem weak to the ...

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have lasted the entire 2 weeks of the experiment. Knowing that this was an experiment would get me at least half way through with relative ease. Physically, I think I would break down quicker than mentally. Positive thinking and a Self fulfilling prophecy, I believe, would allow me to endure a great amount of verbal abuse and mental torture. One of the prisoners was polite and very positive, I think I’d take his approach. The guard that seemed to be more cruel was disarmed by the prisoners’ “it could be worse” attitude and I think it kind of pissed him off a bit. He couldn’t break the man’s will, and to me that was an achievement few people would earn. I think prison is far far different today than that period. Men raping other men, people killing others over material ...

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Added: 3/20/2011 10:20:05 PM
Submitted By: shalahallah
Category: Miscellaneous
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