In your Ethics testpaper, set for Monday 29 October, you will be asked to answer a question (you'll have a choice from three) about the Stanford Prison Experiment.
This experiment was conducted at the psychology department of Stanford University in 1971 with the purpose of researching how people react to extreme circumstances as well as obeying or executing authority. The experiment got completely out of hand and was terminated weeks before the envisioned end date.
Go to the website where the professor behind the experiment, Philip Zimbardo, and his team, give a detailed description of the experiment:
http://www.prisonexp.org/
Explore the site and keep the following two questions in mind:
- what does this experiment tell us about the morality of the people involved?
- is it ethical to conduct such an experiment to begin with?
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