PSYCH 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter X: Currying, Nylon, Random Assignment
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Social psychology - the branch of psychology that looks at how your behavior is influenced by that of others and how their behavior is influenced by yours. Social psychology may be the domain that contains the greatest number of landmark studies. Reading 37: a prison by any other name. Study was chosen for the section because it clearly changed the field by: Providing new insights into some extreme human social behavior. Sparking new waves of research to either confirm, refine, or contest theories and discoveries. Creating heated controversy about research ethics that ultimately led to the ethical principles discussed in the preface of this book. Philip zimbardo"s stanford prison study - produced some startling revelations about the psychology of imprisonment. Zimbardo was testing his belief that the environment around you, the situation, often determines how you behave more strongly than who you are (your internal, dispositional nature)
