PSYC 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip Zimbardo
24 Sep 2020
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Public outcry over highly publicized results from social psychological experiments during the 60s and 70s including: stanley milgram (1963) study of obedience and philip zimbardo (1971) stanford prison study. Milgram asked a group of 40 yale psychiatrists to predict the outcome of his obedience study. They predicted that more than 50% of participants would stop the experiment before administering 150 volts and only 1% of subjects would administer the maximum 450 volts. Surprisingly 65% of participants administered the maximum voltage of. Many of the past social psychological experiments of the past could not be conducted today. Today we have very strict and ethical guidelines governing the treatment and use of human subjects in experiments. Social psychologists use scientific methods and empirical investigations to answer social psychological questions. Jonestown 1978: 913 men, women, and children die in mass cult suicide. Heaven"s gate cult march 26, 1997: 39 dead in mass suicide.
