zimbardo

• unethical


  psychological harm - 5 relased early - experiment closed after 6 days - 2 weeks

  gurads extreme guilt

  showed extreme signs of distress, anxiety, rage - inhumane

  physcial harm - gaurds became increasingly tyrannical - inhuma acts of terror - woke up in the middle of the night and made them wash toilet with bare hands

  however - did not break ethics - stanford ethics committee accepted it

  debrief several years after

  no deception
• research to dissaprove 


  Riecher and Haslam bbc study uk

  recreated experiment

  findings - ppts did not confrom to their roles - gaurds reluctant to impose authority and prisoners collectively challenged authority

  shows power shift

  therefore people have a strong identity - dont conform act as social support for others

  high ILOC
• methadological issues


  demand characteristics - please u effect

  compelling mock prison set up - ppts guess what they thought the aim of the study was

  researchers presented zimbardo's study to students who had never heard of it before - guessed that prisoners would conform and gurads increasingly hostile

  low ecological validity and mundane realism