SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE
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the negativeconsequences of groupthink.
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how far people arewilling to go when instructed to do something by an authority figure.
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the power thatsituations can have in changing how people feel, think, and behave.
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the boost that socialfacilitation can provide to individual performance.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The research, known as the Stanford Prison Experiment, has become a classic demonstration of situational power to influence individual attitudes, values and behavior.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to Zimbardo and his colleagues, the Stanford Prison Experiment revealed how people will readily conform to the social roles they are expected to play, especially if the roles are as strongly stereotyped as those of the prison guards.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was intended to measure the effect of role-playing, labeling, and social expectations on behaviour over a period of two weeks. However, mistreatment of prisoners escalated so alarmingly that principal investigator Philip G. Zimbardo terminated the experiment after only six days.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dr. Zimbardo was asked to testify for multiple committees investigating topics such as abuse in prison settings. As a result of his testimony for one such committee, a law was passed which requires federal prisons to detain juvenile inmates separately from adult inmates while they are awaiting trial.