Do you think you're a good person? Perhaps each of us thinks so, at least we have to reserve our own moral bottom line. Do you know how long it takes to turn a normal mentally healthy person into an evil person? Let's put it this way, there is such an experiment, if you are given 1 million, let you stay in a prison for two weeks, this prison has no evil people, your life will not be threatened, from prison guards to mortals are ordinary people, just like a family, but you need to abide by the rules of the prison, are you willing?
I don't think most people can resist this temptation! When I saw this question, I was even thinking, this 1 million is a little too easy, or do you want to increase the difficulty? Throwing me into a real prison is not impossible! In fact, 50 years ago, in 1971, for just $15 a day, someone was willing to participate in such an experiment. This is the very famous psychological experiment - the Stanford Prison Experiment! Let's take a look at how human nature collapsed in just six days! In 1971, american psychologist Philip Zimbardo, in order to study whether the behavior of prison guards and inmates in prisons will be affected by the environment, so in the basement of the Stanford Psychology Building, began this psychological experiment!
First, the team called for volunteers to participate in the study of prison life in a local newspaper for two weeks, and volunteers were paid $15 a day. The high daily salary attracted 75 college students, through interviews and a series of psychological tests, eliminated candidates with psychological problems, physical disabilities, criminal history and drug history, and finally, left 24 students who were healthy and had no psychological problems, and the experiment officially began!
Of these 24, half were randomly selected as prison guards and the other half as prisoners. At this time, all college students only think that they are involved in a very ordinary psychology experiment. But in fact, in order to accurately test the results, Zimbardo's team restored a real prison 1:1 in the basement of the Stanford Psychology Building! All the details were just right, the camera, the monitor, and there were no windows or watches that could tell the time. Moreover, the 12 selected prisoners entered the prison process infinitely closer to the truth! The police car honked all the way to its destination, took people out of the house, put their hands on the police car, searched, handcuffed, and arrested. When they arrived at the basement, all the prisoners stripped naked and sprinkled with powder and put on prison clothes like dresses! Deprived of names, all prisoners had their own numbers and were required to wear shackles. The whole process, it's like they're really breaking the law!
And the prison guards enter the prison in advance, when the prisoners enter the prison, the prison guards will assist the prisoners to undress, sprinkle medicine powder, each step is in accordance with the standard admission process in the walk, more interestingly, everyone is like playing home, there are talk and laughter! The purpose of these two groups of people is the same, to spend 14 days in peace and take money and leave, but their treatment is not the same. Prisoners are given a minimal diet and medical management, while the guards are not affected by their diet and can even order a takeaway! The work of prison guards, without rules, has enough freedom, and only needs to abide by one rule, that is, they must maintain the order and law of the prison, regardless of the means, but can not use force!
In order to better document the experimental process and supervise the experiment, Zimbardo personally served as the warden. The peaceful coexistence on the first day disappointed Zimbardo, and the prisoners and guards were like a family that loved each other, talking and laughing, and how could they get the results of the experiment they wanted! In order to let these guards and prisoners integrate into their roles as soon as possible, so at 2:30 a.m. the next day, all the prisoners are rudely woken up by the guards, and then let them face the wall and shout out their numbers loudly and repeatedly! The result was a rupture in the fragile feelings of both sides, and the next morning, all the prisoners rallied together, refused to obey orders, tore off the number on their uniforms, and laughed loudly at the guards. At this moment, the devil has come!
The guards, who had power and needed to ensure that the experiment could continue, began to suppress the prisoners. The first is the divisive meter of thirty-six counts, which divides prisoners into good prisoners and bad prisoners, and holds them separately, so that good prisoners enjoy better treatment, and bad prisoners even take away their sleeping pillows. The group of people who originally resisted collectively fell apart in an instant, and everyone did not want to be bad criminals anymore, and they were officially integrated into their roles. Prison guards began to educate bad criminals, asking them to do push-ups, and one of them even rode on the back of a prisoner who was doing push-ups. Next, more punishment came, being stripped naked, taking away meals, pillows, blankets, leading the trouble, and even having to clean the toilet with empty hands.
The guards found that no one stopped them, so they thought it was all reasonable, and then began the next round of amusement! Yes, they went from suppressing the prisoners' unrest to making fun of them within the rules. Although it seems that there are no bloody and violent incidents, but humiliation is everywhere, this experiment, slowly out of the original intention, the madness of the prison guards, the despair of the prisoners.
This experiment has also made frightening progress! From the two parties talking and laughing, to the collapse of the two prisoners leaving the scene, the experiment lasted only 6 days. The two sides that were originally equal to each other, one side became a demon, the other became a lamb, and everyone in this experiment was deeply trapped in their role, whether it was the abuser or the abused, and even Zimbardo himself, who presided over the experiment, was also deeply involved in it, becoming the image of the judge who maintained the order of his prison.
Art comes from life, and that's right, this experiment was later made into a movie by countless people. There are various versions, and some even have murders, and human nature seems to be infinitely magnified in the movie. After two days of knowing each other, you can use the rules as an excuse to abuse and humiliate each other, blindly obey, and gradually give up your sense of independence and lose your ability to make self-determination! On the other hand, it took only two days to resist, to resist ineffectively, to slowly lose itself and begin to obey. But these were actually successful for Zimbardo, who compiled more than a dozen proposals for prison environment reform after the experiment, and adopted them.
The Stanford prison experiment, in fact, is not so rigorous and does not stand up to scrutiny. But what this experiment feeds back is really worth everyone's deep thinking, and in a specific environment, human nature cannot stand up to scrutiny. Well, here we are today, pay attention to the passers-by, have heard the guests say, we will see you next time!
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