An Overview of The Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford Prison Experiment was designed and conducted by a Social Psychologist Dr. Zimbardo at Stanford University in 1971. According to Zimbardo (1971), the experiment was intended to better interpret “the basic psychological mechanisms underlying human aggression” (p. 1). The experiment’s goal was to test the dispositional hypothesis - whether the uncontrollable violence within an ordinary prison environment was legitimately caused by the existing
Ethical dilemma: Is it ethical for doctors to prescribe placebo to patients? In this type of study the experimentation are determined by the study protocol, which means that ethical considerations are of great importance in the design of the study. Such ethical considerations can for example be that no patient should be denied to have an appropriate treatment due to his participation in the experiment (Bonita et al., 2006). However, the dilemma that will be considered in this paper is the ethics
1. The general idea of the article is about a mock prison experiment conducted by Doctor Zimbardo. The research was to identify the psychological causes of aggression and violence, and to observe the variables that promoted such behaviour in prison. He did this by using two groups of people that were randomly assigned as either a prisoner or a prison guard. The hypothesis that is focused upon to provide an explanation to the conditions in prisons is the dispositional hypothesis. The dispositional
originality, symbolism and rich imagery. Lakhan Deb’s Tiger Claw (1967) is a historical play in three acts on the controversial murder of Afzal Khan by Shivaji. His other two plays are Vivekanand (1972) and Murder at the Prayer Meeting (1976). The use of blank verse is flawless and the last play compels us to remind of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the