Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Fire Hose, Stanford Prison Experiment

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Cole

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Best studies: both deal with the idea of knowing the role in which we are playing: milgram study: This experiment was done in the late 1960s at yale university and had intended on also doing german university students (never did) Main goal = compare germans to usa university students to see how they would react to doing something dangerous and outrageous. The idea is if you go along and listen to what they instructions say, by having to shock them when they get one wrong, you will reach the max voltage of xx. Results = they found that 65% of the students from yale kept pressing the lever all the way until reaching the max (these results were enough for him) Conclusion = a vast amount of people will do something that brings pain to others if they are told to do so by someone of higher authority: stanford prison experiment: (done by zimbardo)