Agenda: 8/21/14• —-Seating Charts—-

• 1. Recap ‘Little Dog’ article with a discussion focus on Paul Slovic’s experiments and the reacts of the test groups.

• 2. Lecture #1 Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo

• 3. Film: Basic Instincts, Milgram revisited

• HWK: Please have these ready on Friday in the following order.

• Lecture #1 (Milgram), Vocab handout, Lost Dog questions, and syllabus.

• All work needs to be done in pen (blue or black) or typed. No pencil.

Stanley Milgram and the obedience experiment

• Why is it so many people obey when they feel coerced?

• Stanley Milgram researched the effect of authority on obedience. He concluded people obey either out of fear or out of a desire to appear cooperative--even when acting against their own better judgment and desires. Milgram’s classic yet controversial experiment illustrates people's reluctance to confront those who abuse power.

• Shock levels were labeled from 15 to 450 volts.

• Results from the experiment. Sixty-five percent (65%) of the ‘teachers’ were willing to progress to the maximum voltage level.

Philip Zimbardo and the Stanford Prison Experiment

• An ad was placed in the local paper asking for college students to participate in a psychological experiment on the effects of prison life.

• Students were given a mental screening before acceptance to check for normal readings and reactions.

• 24 people total; all males. Divided by a coin flip (half guards, half prisoners)

• Jail was in the basement of the Stanford psychology department

Philip Zimbardo and the Stanford Prison Experiment• Prisoners were arrested in public, charged at the

police station and brought to “Stanford County Jail” for processing

• They were blindfolded in their cells, temporarily.

• Each prisoner was stripped naked, searched and deloused.

• Prisoners were then given a uniform, a number and only referred to by number; hair was later shaved off as a punishment

• Guards were not given any specific rules, only told to maintain order