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"Some of the Procedures Used by Social Physiatrists Such as Asch, Zimbardo and Milgram are Ethically Questionable".
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"Some of the Procedures Used by Social Physiatrists Such as Asch, Zimbardo and Milgram are Ethically Questionable" It is an undisputable fact that ethics will always be an important issue in any psychological experiment. However, some experiments can be perceived to have "crossed the line" much further than others. Is psychological scaring worth the results in the end or should psychological experiments be subject to serious scrutiny before even being attempted? While this debate could last forever, there are some experiments that undeniably over stepped some bounds to a point where no result could have been worth it. Such a scenario could be arguably seen in the experiment that Zimbardo carried out. Zimbardo's participants were randomly assigned the position of "guard" and "prisoner" then made to act out their given roles in a basement of a university. The "prisoners" were arrested in full view of the public, stripped, disinfected, assigned a...
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