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    The Stanford Prison Experiment was a study conducted in 1971 that investigated the psychological effects of perceived power and roles. In the study, researchers assigned randomly selected male students to be either "guards" or "prisoners" in a mock prison located in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. The guards were allowed to use psychological techniques like harassment and intimidation to maintain control over the prisoners. Within only a few days, some of the guards exhibited aggressive and abusive behavior towards the prisoners, while many of the prisoners showed signs of depression and psychological distress. The study had to be shut down after only six days, instead of the planned two weeks, because of the intensity of the abusive behaviors and the emotional deterioration of some prisoners. The experiment

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    The Stanford Prison Experiment was a study conducted in 1971 that investigated the psychological effects of perceived power and roles. In the study, researchers assigned randomly selected male students to be either "guards" or "prisoners" in a mock prison located in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. The guards were allowed to use psychological techniques like harassment and intimidation to maintain control over the prisoners. Within only a few days, some of the guards exhibited aggressive and abusive behavior towards the prisoners, while many of the prisoners showed signs of depression and psychological distress. The study had to be shut down after only six days, instead of the planned two weeks, because of the intensity of the abusive behaviors and the emotional deterioration of some prisoners. The experiment

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    The Stanford Prison Experiment was a study conducted in 1971 that investigated the psychological effects of perceived power and roles. In the study, researchers assigned randomly selected male students to be either "guards" or "prisoners" in a mock prison located in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. The guards were allowed to use psychological techniques like harassment and intimidation to maintain control over the prisoners. Within only a few days, some of the guards exhibited aggressive and abusive behavior towards the prisoners, while many of the prisoners showed signs of depression and psychological distress. The study had to be shut down after only six days, instead of the planned two weeks, because of the intensity of the abusive behaviors and the emotional deterioration of some prisoners. The experiment

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    Stanford Prison Experiment

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    Discussion Questions
    1. What police procedures are used during arrests, and how do these procedures lead people to feel
    confused, fearful, and dehumanized?
    2. If you were a guard, what type of guard would you have become? How sure are you?
    3. What prevented "good guards" from objecting or countermanding the orders from tough or bad
    guards?
    4. If you were a prisoner, would you have been able to endure the experience? What would you have
    done differently than those subjects did? If you were imprisoned in a "real" prison for five years or
    more, could you take it?
    5. Why did our prisoners try to work within the arbitrary prison system to effect a change in it (e.g.,
    setting up a Grievance Committee), rather than trying to dismantle or change the system through
    outside help?
    6. What factors would lead prisoners to attribute guard brutality to the guards' disposition or character,
    rather than to the situation?
    7. What is "reality" in a prison setting? This study is one in which an illusion of imprisonment was
    created, but when do illusions become real? Contrast consensual reality and physical or biological
    reality, and explain the implications of the following poem (by PGZ):Within the illusion of life,
    Death is the only reality,
    but
    is Reality the only death?
    Within the reality of imprisonment,
    Illusion is the only freedom,
    but
    is Freedom the only illusion?
    8. What is identity? Is there a core to your self-identity independent of how others define you? How
    difficult would it be to remake any given person into someone with a new identity?
    9. Do you think that kids from an urban working class environment would have broken down
    emotionally in the same way as did our middle-class prisoners? Why? What about women?

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    10. After the study, how do you think the prisoners and guards felt when they saw each other in the
    same civilian clothes again and saw their prison reconverted to a basement laboratory hallway?
    11. Moving beyond physical prisons built of steel and concrete, what psychological prisons do we create
    for ourselves and others? If prisons are seen as forms of control which limit individual freedom, how
    do they differ from the prisons we create through racism, sexism, ageism, poverty, and other social
    institutions? Extend your discussion to focus on:
    o

    The illusion of prison created in marriages where one spouse becomes "guard" and the other
    becomes "prisoner"

    The illusion of prison created in neurosis where one aspect of the person becomes the prisoner who
    is told he/she is inadequate and hopeless, while another aspect serves as a personal guard

    The silent prison of shyness, in which the shy person is simultaneously his or her own guard and
    prisoner

    12. Was it ethical to do this study? Was it right to trade the suffering experienced by participants for the
    knowledge gained by the research? (The experimenters did not take this issue lightly, although the
    Slide Show may sound somewhat matter-of-fact about the events and experiences that occurred).
    13. How do the ethical dilemmas in this research compare with the ethical issues raised by Stanley
    Milgram's obedience experiments? Would it be better if these studies had never been done?
    14. If you were the experimenter in charge, would you have done this study? Would you have
    terminated it earlier? Would you have conducted a follow-up study?
    15. How can we change our real institutions, such as Attica Prison, when they are designed to resist
    critical evaluation and operate in relative secrecy from taxpayers and legislators?
    16. Knowing what this research says about the power of prison situations to have a corrosive effect on
    human nature, what recommendations would you make about changing the correctional system in
    your country?

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