Week 4: The Stanford Prison Experiment: Implications for Abu Ghraib
Week 4: The Stanford Prison Experiment: Implications for Abu Ghraib
View the video on Dr. Phillip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment. Dr. Zimbard talks about why ordinary people do evil.
Reminder: Respond to the main instructor’s question and a minimum of one other peer post. You can post beyond the minimum number required. In fact, additional quality posts above the minimum will be given extra credit.
The Stanford Prison Experiment (Click) (Links to an external site.)
Why Ordinary People Do Evil
why ordinary people do evil (Links to an external site.)
Ghosts of Abu Gahriab (Links to an external site.)
Shocking Stories of Abu Ghraib Prisoners (Optional)
Shocking Stories of Abu Ghraib Prisoners (Links to an external site.)
Question: How do the findings of Dr. Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment help us understand what happened at Abu Ghraib Prison and why ordinary people do evil? How could this behavior have been prevented?
The primary reference for the essays will be your assigned textbooks:
Reading Assignment (Criminal Behavior: A Psychological Approach, Chapter 4)
Criminal Behavior: A Psychological Approach Author: Curt Bartol, Anne Bartol Publisher: Prentice Hall Edition: 11th
Cite as followed: author, title/publication, and copyright date, e.g. Bartol and Bartol, 10th ed., Criminal Behavior: A Psychosocial Approach, 2014.
