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Essay Galaxy - A Critique Of the Stanford Experiment
A Critique Of the Stanford Experiment
"The Education of a Torturer" is an account of experiments that has
similar results to that of Milgram's obedience experimentsthat were
performed in 1963. Though both experiments vary drastically, both have one
grim outcome, that is that, "it is ordinary people, not psychopaths, who
become the Eichmanns of history."
The Stanford experiment was performed by psychologists Craig Haney,
W. Curtis Banks, and Philip Zimbardo. Their goal was to find out if
ordinary people could become abusive if given the power to do so. The
results of the six day experiment are chilling. The experiment took
ordinary college students and had some agree to be prisoners and the rest
would be guards for the prisoners. Both groups received no training on
what to do or act like. They had to get all of their knowledge of what to
do from outside sources,....
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