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The Stanford Prison Experiment

The Stanford Prison Experiment. The Stanford Prison Experiment: Lecture objectives. 1. Visit the Stanford Prison Experiment. 2. Describe the social psychological processes occurring in the SPE. SPE.

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The Stanford Prison Experiment

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  1. The Stanford Prison Experiment

  2. The Stanford Prison Experiment: Lecture objectives • 1. Visit the Stanford Prison Experiment. • 2. Describe the social psychological processes occurring in the SPE.

  3. SPE • The SPE can be viewed as a replication of the autocratic leadership condition of the Lewin democracy experiment. • However, in the SPE it is more than a leader but an entire social system. • Show DVD

  4. Social Psychological Processes • Altercasting: The key to understanding the SPE is the ease in which humans slip in and out of roles • Process is underestimated which gives SPE its sense of being unique • Flexible roles are essential part of human life (compared to other social animals) • Masks are common in our early ancestors • Evolutionary advantage

  5. Social Psychological Processes • Obedience to authority • Social conformity (norms) • Actions of others created a social reality • Granfalloon (social identities) • Guards vs. prisoners • Cognitive dissonance • Rationalizing their actions • Dehumanize others • Rationalization trap • Power

  6. SPE = Power of the situation • Personality measures did not predict much (other than some prisoner adjustments) • Fundamental & ultimate attribution errors are often given as explanations for events such as SPE • The lesson of the SPE is that is any person (regardless of gender, personality, culture, ethnicity, religion, etc.) behave as the subjects did in the SPE.

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