Social Psychology

Bystander effect

Involves where you think everyone else will do something, and responsibility is shared among all people

Philip Zimbardo (1933 - Now) — interested in how social systems influence behavior

Procedure — the prison was built in Stanford's psychology department's basement

2 weeks for students, 15 dollars a day
Each person was either an inmate or a prison guard
turned the janitors’ closet into solitary confinement
The guards were assigned 8-hour shifts and were assigned to keep inmates in line
Inmates were given jumpsuits with numbers instead of names to reinforce their loss of individuality and dehumanization within the prison environment, and remained in a prison cell for the duration of the study, and also wore bald caps
All were designed for dehumanizing behavior. Guards could not use violence,e but could use verbal abuse
were frequently going through counts for inmate numbers on the ifirstday, a lot of stupid stuff,f andguards' usdisciplinen and physical discomfort,t likepushupsy
by second day, the abuse was pretty bad. One inmate tried to leave, but the guy said no
study only lasted six days because girlfreind sasi it should stop
called out behavior are evil behavior driven by systems of power social norms drive this

Psychological perspective

guard were told in behavior and saying that zembardo was influencing the guards and telling the inmates to nudge the gaurds also telling guard to dehumanize the inmates

All this feeds into demand characteristics telling particippents what the researcher wants

prior goal of the study was to makes prisons better so maybe theyw anted the worst prison experience

participents felt like a psych study not an actual prison