Conformity to social roles (Zimbardo)

• Conformity to social roles is the idea that individuals adjust their behavior to align with the expectations of their roles.
• Social roles are the part one plays in society, each role has a set of norms, behaviors and attitudes.
• The Stanford prison experiment has been critisised for its ethical violations, including deception, lack of informed consent, and harm to participants.
• Zimbardo got too involved in his prison experiment, abandoning his role as a neutral observer.
• Negatives of Zimbardo's prison experiment are the demand characteristics, ethical issues, condtridicatory research and that conformity to social roles is not automatic as he thought.