RE104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Stanford Prison Experiment, Totalitarianism, Social Distance
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Interesting: none of good guards intervened with bad guards, expressed that they were opposed to what bad guards were doing. Reactions: uncomfortable from watching ppl be degraded and humiliated, forced to confront feeling (cid:498)) would never do that but what if? (cid:499) Impact of placing ppl in the fake prison sets stage for action that follows. Makes us rethink how we conceptualize evil, rethink how we characterize evil, see problems with labeling things evil. Influence: we react to ppl in doctors/lab coats in a particular way, unsettling to see how you"d react when put in such a situation, authority, environment influence people"s behavior, we"re use to following authority. Social distancing makes it harder to empathize (cid:523)especially when you can"t. Rejection of personal responsibility when someone else is telling you what to. Everything dehumanizing and disorientating look the person in the eyes.
