The Stanford Prison Experiment was a major study in criminal justice and a major ethical breach. Discuss this experiment and ethical dileammas. Bring attention to where the experiment crossed the line.
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The experiment aimed to understand the psychological effects of perceived power, focusing on the struggle between prisoners and prison officers. It involved the simulation of a prison environment where participants were randomly assigned to play the roles of Show more…
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1. Was it ethical to do the prison study in the way that Zimbardo conducted it? Why or why not? Explain your position substantively. 2. What social psychological constructs did the study reveal? Would the same information have been learned if the study had been conducted differently? If yes, how might you adapt the study to address ethical concerns and still obtain results relevant to our understanding of behavior in social settings? 3. How do the social psychology concepts of conformity and the power of the social situation that we are studying this week relate to what happened during the brief period of time that the prison study ran. Where in the description of how the study unfolded did we see evidence of these concepts?
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