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Post-Holocaust Social Psychology Experiments - Coggle Diagram
Post-Holocaust Social Psychology Experiments
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Philip Zimbardo Experiment
If people are placed in a certain role, will it change their behavior? (question)
Could the people who committed atrocities have done so also because of their role and not just because of their individual personality?(question)
The guards humiliated prisoners, they gave them degrading tasks—cleaning the toilets, played on them (findings)
The prisoners became anxious, depressed, began to act like real prisoners; only considered their own survival and stopped caring about other prisoners. (findings)
Gather participants, let them feel the whole process of prisoners from arrest to prison. When they get into prison, some become prisoners, a few become guards. And observe their actions. (Method)
This experiment reflects human ambition. Sometimes actions are not depending on people's personality. Corresponding to the Holocaust, at the beginning, one soldier might dare to kill only one or two people, but with time pass on, they are likely to kill 1000 people with out thinking. (possible explanation)
Obedience Experiment
How influential is an authority figure? (question)
Will people obey authority or their personal conscience?
The agency theory
in a social situation
actor take the responsibility
agentic state
pass off the responsibility
act as agents for another person
believe the authority will take the responsibility
Solomon Asch conformity experiment
How a person's own opinions are influenced by those of a group?
How power is peer pressure?
How easy is it to question what you think is right or factually true when a group says otherwise? Can it make you doubt yourself?
37% of people gave the wrong answer in order
What might these experiments be missing?
What is the question the researcher is trying to answer?
What is the method?
What is the finding?
How does the finding apply to the Holocaust? How might it explain?
What might these experiments be missing?
The cultural context for participants might also influence the behavior, hatred
or discrimination lasted for centuries could be the catalyst for violent behavior
and therefore should be considered as a factor as well.
Are there any flaws or ways to improve the experiment for better accuracy?
Maybe they can combine the first two experiment of group behavior and
the influence of orders. The first experiment is using a morally neutral question
to explain the phenomenon of massive genocide, which would probably not
be quite an accurate data. The second experiment is placing one single person
in the dilemma, ignoring the influences of normative in a group. With these
combined, it will be a much more significant evidence and explanation.
While similar experiments have used an illusion to get subjects to choose the
wrong length,conformity subjects are likely to know the illusion and choose the
wrong answer. So the result maybe more than a herd mentality.
