Prison Experiment 2
Though the experiment was designed to last 14 days, it had to be stopped after just six days.
It has to be stopped because of what was happening to participants.
The interactions between the prisoners and the guards had become hostile and degrading(降低身份的 有辱人格的).
The guards had become aggressive and brutal, and the prisoners were passive（消极的） and depressed.
As a result, five of the prisoners had to be released early because the severe negative emotions.
Even the researchers were affected and they began to overlook what was happening.
Instead of halting the experiment, they let it continue.
They themselves had become dehumanized by the situation they had designed.
Finally, they realized that the experiment had to be stopped.
A degrading experience makes people feel....worthless.
What the experiment demonstrates is the powerful effect that situations can have on human behavior.
Given a position of power, people can begin to behave differently than they normally would.
They can begin to behave in an aggressive manner, while those with no power can become passive and depressed.
In other words, the experiment shows that situations can cause abusive behavior.
How do people with no power often behave? ...They can become passive and depressed.
There are some important criticisms of this experiment.
One criticism is that is an example of unethical research.
It wen on longer than it should have.
It is also unrepreshentative since the participants were mostly while, middle-class males.
Despite the criticism, the experiment were remains an important study of human behavior.
Research example of Stanford Effect may include the treatment of prisoners of War by American Soldiers in the Iraq War.
Other possible examples include building at school and gang behavior.
According to the head researchers, Philip Zimbardo, it helps to explain how ordinary people sometimes turn evil.
If situations do influenza human behavior, then managing situations can be a way of controlling people.
Why isn't this experiment representative of the general population?
...Its participants were mostly while, middle-class males.
There are some important criticisms of this experiment.
In the bullying situation, some students take on a new evil personality.
Those without power can become passive and depressed.
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