PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Psych, Stanford Prison Experiment, Deindividuation

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 001
• Professor: del rio

Document Summary

Mere presence effects: behavior is influenced by the presence of an audience. Participants were asked to shock a person they couldn"t see behind a wall every time this person got a question wrong. The shocks got increasingly worse with each question. The prevalence of power on the researcher"s part is very important because they"re more inclined to listen to the researcher. The first participant eventually decided to stop delivering the shock because he wasn"t comfortable with the experiment. Deferring responsibility so the patient have to be responsible for the consequences. Two of the participants use deferring responsibility to continue the study. The prompt of it is essential that you continue causes one to continue the experiment. Nine out of the 12 participants went all the way to the 450 volts. More likely to continue if individuals believe they are not ultimately responsible. Increased by psychological distance between individual"s actions and the result of these actions or by dehumanizing the victim.