{"id":5379,"date":"2020-03-31T14:28:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T18:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2020-03-31T14:28:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T18:28:35","slug":"stanford-prison-experiment-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/03\/31\/stanford-prison-experiment-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Prison Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my Leadership 102 class, that was the first time I was introduced to this experiment and even after reviewing it again in the reading, it still baffled me. It is alarming that this experiment revealed human&#8217;s hidden capability to act sadistically or submissively if social conditions change and are permitted; this is what happens when one is given power, and how easily humans succumb to the evil side of their psyche. I guess that is the dark side of human nature and if you don&#8217;t understand it than you&#8217;re vulnerable to it. But I&#8217;m not gonna lie it was\u00a0interesting to see how easily the human psyche given repetitive abuse is conditioned to receive it and accept it.\u00a0It really spoke volumes of the relationship between the abuser and the abused.<\/p>\n<p>The planned two-week study simulation ended only after 6 days&#8230;so imagine what would&#8217;ve happened if they hadn&#8217;t canceled the experiment. Also, It wasn&#8217;t specifically mentioned, but the &#8216;John Wayne&#8217; guard portrayal seems to show how the attitude and behavior of one dominant person can affect or even guide the behavior of others, prisoners. This just goes to show how much humans in general tend to be followers rather than leaders.<\/p>\n<div id=\"toolbar\" class=\"style-scope ytd-comment-action-buttons-renderer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my Leadership 102 class, that was the first time I was introduced to this experiment and even after reviewing it again in the reading, it still baffled me. It is alarming that this experiment revealed human&#8217;s hidden capability to act sadistically or submissively if social conditions change and are permitted; this is what happens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}