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Zimbardo - A Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Simulated Prison.
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Zimbardo - A Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Simulated Prison. Background This study was funded by the US Navy, as it and the US Marine Corps were interested in finding out the causes of conflict between guards and prisoners in the naval prisons. Attempts to explain the violent and brutal conditions often found in prisons had previously used dispositional attribution. That is, that the state of the prison is due to the nature of the prison guards and the prisoners. For example, it had been argued that prison guards bring to their jobs a particular 'guard mentality' and are therefore attracted to the job as they are already sadistic and insensitive people. Whereas prisoners are individuals who have no respect for law and order and bring this aggressiveness and impulsivity to the prison. Philip Zimbardo was interested in testing this dispositional hypothesis by demonstrating that the conditions of the...
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