How would you respond to orders to hurt another person? Can a person's environment influence them to the point of doing things they once considered "evil"? Studies - often quite unethical - hace been conducted over the years to better understand the human mind, what it is capable of and how easily it can be manipulated. Like most experiments, however, these were born out of of real-life situations that continue exist. Find out about the famous experiments of Stanley Milgram and Phillip Zimbardo as well as the infamous prison: Abu Ghraib.Bringing the world of psychology to my high school students at the American School of Tegucigalpa since 2009.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
From Milgram to Zimbardo to Abu Ghraib
How would you respond to orders to hurt another person? Can a person's environment influence them to the point of doing things they once considered "evil"? Studies - often quite unethical - hace been conducted over the years to better understand the human mind, what it is capable of and how easily it can be manipulated. Like most experiments, however, these were born out of of real-life situations that continue exist. Find out about the famous experiments of Stanley Milgram and Phillip Zimbardo as well as the infamous prison: Abu Ghraib.
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