Interview about the Stanford experiment and Squid Game
Squid Game
Opinion
What did they think about the series ?
Did they apreciate it ?
Does it remind you of the Stanford experiment?
Stanford experiment
If yes in what way ?
If no why not ?
For prisonners: Do you think if you could've changed roles you would've behaved like the guards ?
Did you like it ?
Yes, why ?
No, why ?
Do you think that Squid Game resembles The Stanford experiment ?
How were you affected by the experiment ?
Yes, why ?
No, why ?
Yes, why?
No, why?
Were you traumatised by the experiment ?
Yes, why ?
No, why ?
It is well made
bad treatment
verbally abused
It educated people about power
It reminded them of the Stanford experiment
because of their high place in the hierarchy
Too violent
they related to the characters (scared/trauma)
inequality/superiority : the guards are not as traumastised as the prisoners
Yes because both experiments represent power and injustice
No because the Stanford prisoners where not physically abused whereas the players in squid game are killed if they failed the challenges
Yes because it made them feel like they can relate to the characters (in a positive way)
Yes because the characters are opressed and so were the prisonners
Money : if they win at the squid game, they get money which reminds the fact that the prisoners and the guards were paid to do the experiment (in both cases they suffered to get the money)
The power represented through the owners of the Squid games is similar to the power shown through the guards in the stanford experiment
Characters were forced to play (if not they were killed) while the prisonners volunteered
Traumatizing to live through old memories from the Stanford experiment
Yes, why?
No, why ?
Because when given freedom over something or someone, people can change and become agressive and mean.
they don't want to make others feel what they have felt
people don't have to be treated like it
Prisonners
Guards
Both the characters in Squid games and the prisoners in the stanford experiment were oblivous to what they were getting themseves into at the beginning
Were stripped of their identities
mentally tough
Given a number and not being called by their names
loss of identity : treated like objects, like they were no one
No normal clothes, plain orange suits
Given chain ankles
yes because they want "revenge"
Given whisltes
Uniforms
How did it make them feel to watch the series?
Glasses
Authority
freedom to behave as they wished
Uncomfortable
Fearful
Traumatized
Resurfacing of bad memories
They don't want hurt mentally or physically the person
Reminded them of the Stanford experiment (in a bad way)
Do you think that the experiment made you all behave based on the situation you were put in our your personalities?
Situation put in
Personalities
Why?
Why?
Because we were normally wouldn't act the way we did if we hadn't been put in such a situation
Some people are affected by how they were treated in their youths, so they might tend to be a bad person as they grow up