RE104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip Zimbardo, Stanley Milgram

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Day 14 authority & obedience, continued torture & abu ghraib. Under what conditions would people obey authority and act against their own conscious. Fundamental problem: how do you hold a system accountable for evil in the world. How do we locate, understand and respond to evil in our decision making of evil. Context: prior belief that holocaust was a unique event. We can live with less stress bc able to have sense of predictability in society. Social psychologists interested in testing if nature or nurture affect people"s (cid:498)behavioral study of obedience(cid:499) (cid:523)1963(cid:524) Yale social psychologist examining origins of human behavior. Every volunteer went up to 300 volts. Obedience due to perceived legitimacy of the presence of someone in. Important: participants experienced great deal of stress authority. Hard to think of evil actions as monstrous when it comes from ordinary people. Breakdown of what happened between ppl (cid:498)stanford prison experiment(cid:499) What role does ones environ play in someone"s conduct.

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