Comparitive Critique of Stanley Milgram's Prison Experiment and "The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism" by Marianne Szegedy-Maszak.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:40:15
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 6 pages (1518 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 6 pages (1518 words)
Put in the right circumstances, every human being has the potential to be a sadist. In "The Stanford Prison Experiment", Phillip G. Zimbardo examines how easily people can slip into roles and become sadistic to the people around them, even going so far as to develop a sense of supremacy. He does this by explaining the results of his experiment that he created to understand more about the effects that imprisonment has on prisoners, and …
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…of a prison-like atmosphere coupled with authorization, dehumanization, and routinization creates a recipe for unimaginable torture.
Works Cited:
Szegedy-Maszak, Marianne. "The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism." Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. 9th Edition. Eds. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. New York: Pearson Longman, 2005. 302-304.
Zimbardo, Philip G. "The Stanford Prison Experiment." Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. 9th Edition. Eds. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. New York: Pearson Longman, 2005. 344-355.
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