SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
ATTRIBUTION ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS
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were assigned the roles of prisoner or guard on the basis of their personality test scores.
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found it very difficult to play the role of prison guard.
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were so endangered by their role-playing experience that the study was discontinued.
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became a cohesive unit when they pursued superordinate goals.
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were selectively chosen in order to maximize their effectiveness as prisoners or guards.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Zimbardo is now 89 years old. He retired from teaching at Stanford after a 50-year career but continues to work as the director of the Heroic Imagination Project, the organization he founded to explore the psychology of everyday heroism.
Detailed explanation-2: -Zimbardo, a professor of psychology at Stanford for over 30 years, is known for his work on the Stanford prison experiment which demonstrated the power of social situations through a mock prison experiment with normal, healthy college students.
Detailed explanation-3: -Zimbardo (1973) conducted an extremely controversial study on conformity to social roles, called the Stanford Prison Experiment. His aim was to examine whether people would conform to the social roles of a prison guard or prisoner, when placed in a mock prison environment.
Detailed explanation-4: -Philip Zimbardo is a contemporary social psychologist best known for his Stanford Prison Study.