PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Geert Hofstede, John Bargh, Anthony Greenwald
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Philip zimbardo (1973), page 6: him and his colleagues paid 24 stanford university undergraduate men to participate in a study of a simulated prison. The guards turned to verbal abuse and physical humiliation. The study had to be terminated after 6 days because the behaviour of the guards produced extreme stress reactions in several of the prisoners. Kurt lewin, page 9: the founder of modern social psychology, was a jewish berliner who fled nazi germany in the 1930s and became a professor at the university of iowa and then at mit. He was a physicist before becoming a psychologist. He believed that the behaviour of people, like the behaviour of objects, is always a function of the field of forces in which they find themselves. Stanley milgram (1963, 1974), page 9: a psychologist famous for his milgram. Experiment, to demonstrate the power of the situations.
