My thoughts on the Stanford Prison Experiment are actually a bit impartial. On one side I can see what they were trying to accomplish, and it wasn't physically hurting anybody. However, I do not believe in "psyching" people out because it mentally could hurt them. In this experiment, it has the person doing the simulated electro-shocking thinking they are harming one person. The reason I am impartial to this is because the person doing the shocking could just say they do not want to continue the experiment.
When I consider what year this was, I can't help but think that people in certain countries may be scared to go against orders. For example, those ordinary Germans during WWII may have felt and known that the mass exterminations were wrong, but may also have feared that saying or doing anything against orders could harm them or their families and so they stayed put out of fear.
I do not exactly know the full story of the Standford Prison Experiment, but based on what I have read in our book, these were my initial thoughts.
Sade, the whole experiment was about how bad or evil environment can change the good person’s behavior to bad behavior. Professor Philip tried to prove his point of view by hurting some people not physically but philologically. The experiment supposes to continue for two weeks. However, six day after the Professor realized his experiment is not ethical and those young men were in pain and he stopped the experiment.
ReplyDeleteSade: The students who agreed with you also argued that the "prisoners" had a choice to leave the experiment any time they wanted to. Others felt that some might have felt pressured to continue on, even if they were uncomfortable with the way they were being treated. You provide some good points. Richard Bobys
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