Today's introduction is a stanford university professor, Professor Philip Zimbardo used the school vacation time to launch an experiment "Stanford Prison Experiment"
Here's a quick look at the setup of this psychology experiment, starting with Zimbardo gathering 24 volunteers and randomly dividing them into two groups, one acting as a prison guard and one as a prisoner. But the volunteers didn't know they were randomly assigned, and at one point even thought that some trait they exhibited in calling an interview led them to the role.
Subsequently, Zimbardo himself served as the prison director himself, asking the early warning to do his job and perform the duty of early warning.
Zimbardo used real police to arrest the so-called "prisoners" and take them to Stanford University's underground laboratory, where they were used as prisoners to perform the prison entry process. In the process, the prison guards showed great excitement to make casual demands on prisoners.
Because the experiment simulated the real prison scene, the food and sleeping conditions for the prisoners were relatively poor, so some prisoners showed a resistance and thought that the prison guards were too real. Early warning even inflicts corporal punishment on prisoners on the basis of a sense of superiority in status.
For this reason, there was a conflict between the early warning and the prisoners, but the prison guards used the divisive meter to break through the unity between the prisoners, and finally put the prisoners in obedience.
This extreme situation occurred after only two or three days of the experiment, but the initiator of the experiment and the warden asked to continue the experiment, and both the prisoner and the prison guard were indoctrinated with the idea that this was the real prison. Their thinking and behavior changed accordingly: the guards became more violent and even insulting to the prisoners, while the prisoners were more obedient and obedient.
One night, Zimbardo observed the situation in the prison as usual, and found that the guards asked the prisoners to imitate the behavior of animals, and the prisoners did so without any resistance, Zimbardo quietly looked at the screen and pondered, he thought: The purpose of the experiment may have been achieved, it does not last for two more weeks, and the current situation has far exceeded his imagination.
Many people have realized through this experiment that the environment can gradually change a person's personality, and the situation can immediately change a person's behavior. Of course, this must not be the only conclusion of this experiment, I think the experiment itself may present a lot of psychological phenomena, when you pay attention to a certain aspect, you will come to a conclusion related to it. If we summarize the views of many people, we may be able to more accurately describe the species of "man".