HW Q. for Wed. night (6/8)

[Jay Levine]

Tonight's HW question asks you to think about the validity of the
Stanford Prison experiment; what about it violated ethical concerns?
What do you think psychologists need to do now in order to ensure that
individual rights are respected in experiments/surveys?

[Rhianna Waterman]

The Stanford Prison experiment violated ethical concerns because the participants based their behavior on how they were expected to act; they took on the role of actual prisoners/guards and participated in role-playing. Some of the participants seemed to act more like these roles as the experiment continued. I believe that psychologists need to monitor their experiments to a certain extent to ensure that individuals are protected. 

[Phil]

I agree with Rhianna. While this is an experiment, so there should be changes happening within the jail, it should be monitered so that no one gets hurt.

Rhianna Waterman <rwate...@gmail.com> wrote:

>The Stanford Prison experiment violated ethical concerns because the

>participants *based their behavior on how they were expected to act; *they

[Michaela Pierro]

The Stanford Prison experiment violated ethical concerns because the participants seemed to turn into who they were pretending to be. Like Rhianna said the participants acted more to their role as the experiment continued. I think one of the prisoners said something like he was losing his identity. Psychologists today need to keep an eye on experiments to confirm that individuals are not being harmed.

 

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Jay Levine <jaymle...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Stephanie Pelletier]

The Stanford Prison experiment violated ethical concerns when the individuals were put in the position to do exactly what they were told.  The expectations forced upon them didn't really allow for them to think things through on their own.  The psychologists need to make sure people aren't put into the situations that would cause harm to themselves or others just as in the prisoner/prison guard positions during this experiment.

[Emily DelDotto]

The Stanford Prison experiment violated ethical concerns because the participants changed their behavior based on how they were instructed to act.  They were beginning to loose their identities, and their whole thought process was transformed. I think psychologists need to closely watch their experiments to insure that neither the participants nor themselves are being harmed or being put in this kind of a situation. 

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Michaela Pierro <michae...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Jaclyn Solimine]

The Stanford Prison experiment violated ethical concerns because those who participated in the experiment seemed to take on a whole different behavior based on instructions or how they thought they were expected to act. The psychologists should ensure that no participants in the experiment are being harmed or permanently affected either physically or emotionally.

[Zachary Brown]

I believe psychologists need to make sure nobody is harmed whether physically or mentally in experiments. The Stanford Prison
Experiment took it too far because people lost all sight of their identities and took on the persona of a new person. It became dangerous because , as we found out, some people loose sight of theirt morals to complete a task when under supervision.

[Egan Davis]

The Stanford Prison Experiment took a turn for the worse when the verbal violence started getting out of hand between the guards and prisoners. I think an experiment like this would be fine if it was monitered so no one would be badly hurt. THese "guards" actually started to believe that they were in charge of these prisoners and thats when things really tstarted getting out of hand.

[Jen Shaw]

i think the Stanford prison experiment violated ethical concerns
because, like what other have said, the prison guards didn't actually
be themselves, they pretended to be the prison guards. they behaved
in a way that would give the psychologists data that they wanted to
see. i bet none of the people playing the role of the prison guards
would of acted in that way, within the first few days if they were
actually being themselves. i think the psychologists should have
stopped the guards before it got too out of control.

[George Bonner]

Stanford prison experiment may have violated certain rights, but it
achieved a great conclusion. People are capable of doing very bad
things. Hobbes. Psychologists should probably inform the participants
of the full intention of the experiment, regardless of if it wrecks
the experiment.

On Jun 8, 10:17 am, Jay Levine <jaymlevin...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Shain Roche]

I think the experiment was invalid. You can't really come up with
reliable results when prisoners choose to rebell ahi at guards, thus
forcing guards to react in a ruthless manner. In the future,
supervisors need to ensure that the "head honchos" of the experiment
respect those being experimented on.

[Emily Lawler]

I think that the fact that one of the guards knew that the point of the experiment was to see if people went crazy made him more harsh than if he hadn't known the point. Also, I think that the experiment didn't violate anyone's rights since they could leave at any time. they willingly participated in being prisoners or guards knowing the consequences and knowing their right to leave. As long as the scientists allow people to leave experiments and give them the right to refuse, the experiments should be allowed.

[Lucille Sirois]

I feel that the ethical concern on the Standford Experiment was the
basis of human testing during physchological experiments. Though they
were given a choice whether to particpate or not, they were put under
immense pressure to act their assigned role. They were instructed to
act in ways that might have been different if they had been given the
decision to think their own thoughts. Because of this aspect, the
people experimented upon might have received emotional or even
physical damage.

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