In the Stanford Prison Experiment, “normal college students were randomly assigned to play the role of guard or inmate for two weeks in a simulated prison, yet the guards quickly became so brutal that the experiment had to be shut down after only six days.” Study conducted by Psychologist.
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Obedience to Authority was studied by Stanley Milgram at Yale University in 1961. He found that “For many people, obedience is a deeply ingrained behavior tendency, indeed a potent impulse overriding training in ethics, sympathy, and moral conduct.”
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by Social Psychologist
In the Robbers Cave Experiment conducted by Muzafer Sherif at a boys’ summer camp, competition between groups for rewards resulted in the groups becoming “so aggressive with each other that the researchers physically separated them.”
Robbers Cave State Park Experiment by Psychologist
“To help a person change who has a proclivity toward violence, or to prevent it in the first place, we must understand the internal ingredients that make someone respond violently. Once understood, people are in a position to see the ingredients for what they are and to do something about them.”
Excerpt from Prevention from the Inside-Out by
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