The Quite Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment

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------------------------------------------------- The Quite RAGE: THE Stanford prison experiment J.T Psychology September 6, 2011 I believe people’s state of mind has to change when sustaining a different role other than their true self’s in order to make the role seem enthusiastic, believable or realistic. I’ve witness people change just as much as people have seen me change. We human beings have the ability to change who we are in days, weeks, seconds even and became a totally distinct person then whom were known to be. If a person experiencing Stockholm syndrome was able to adapt to their captors poor conditions and developed a positive feeling about their situation why can a person undergoing a role or wearing a costume change their state of mind and begin lose their identity and become someone else. They selected people who are naturally more inclined to aggression, college students, than true correctional officers. There were three types of guards in the experiment first, stood the tough but fair guards who followed prison rules, these guards were there to play the role as the psychologist has assigned. Secondly, we had the guards who did small favors for the prisoners and hardly ever punished them, which I believe where the ones who placed themselves in the prisoner’s shoes or their emotional sense was on the other side of the situation. Finally the guards who were hostile, dogmatic, and endured prisoner humiliation. These were the guards who began to be over ruled by the character they played and appeared to thoroughly enjoy the power they wielded. This case of power can compared to the Nazis actions during the holocaust, how normal citizen turned into monsters in the Third Reich all under the command of one person. We also have three types of prisoners, first were the rebels who made the guard change their discipline due to their
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