{"id":255,"date":"2021-10-02T20:34:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T00:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/?p=255"},"modified":"2021-10-02T20:34:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T00:34:49","slug":"the-stanford-prison-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/2021\/10\/02\/the-stanford-prison-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stanford Prison Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MLA 500 Method Presentation 1\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c8JpJ0JgtPQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) is iconic in Social Psychology. True to its name, The SPE is a laboratory experiment &#8211; albeit with human subjects. It is comprised of at least a half dozen methods, almost comprising a &#8216;methodology&#8217; in and of itself.<\/p>\n<p>The SPE subjects were some 20 college-age males (almost exclusively white) residing around Stanford (California) in the summer of 1971. The subjects were randomly (via a coin toss) equally split into &#8220;guards&#8221; and &#8220;prisoners&#8221; and observed via video, audio, experimenter and self reporting including anecdotal and survey accounts over the course of six days. The planned two week experiment was forced to end prematurely.<\/p>\n<p>The SPE is a study of the interrelationship dynamics within and between two ostensibly oppositional groups. As such, it is a reasonable analogical model for my study of the Epistemological Crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Thibault Le Texier did a historical analysis of the considerable scholarship on the SPE and the documentation generated by the SPE itself. This research and analysis, &#8216;Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment&#8217;, provides a method itself &#8211; Historical Analysis &#8211; for the study and contextualization of works of scholarship which can provide valuable insights and reflections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonexp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Stanford Prison Experiment Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following are the two cited works referenced, please let me know if the links don&#8217;t work, and I can try and make sure that I provide you with a copy (I can email you a copy of them if you want).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Kenny<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.dtic.mil\/sti\/pdfs\/AD0751041.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haney, C., Banks, W. C., &amp; Zimbardo, P. (1973). Interpersonal dynamics<\/a><br \/>\nin a simulated prison. International Journal of Criminology and Penology,<br \/>\n1, 69\u201397.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/richmond.box.com\/s\/xzsm3fg017f8do2nfc7jwf3q2jozhjmt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Le Texier, Thibault. &#8220;Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment.&#8221;\u00a0<i>American Psychologist<\/i>\u00a074.7 (2019): 823.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) is iconic in Social Psychology. True to its name, The SPE is a laboratory experiment &#8211; albeit with human subjects. It is comprised of at least a half dozen methods, almost comprising a &#8216;methodology&#8217; in and of itself. The SPE subjects were some 20 college-age males (almost exclusively white) residing around Stanford (California) in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/2021\/10\/02\/the-stanford-prison-experiment\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,179546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentation","category-research-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/researchmethods-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}