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CHAPTER 11: REFLECTIONS ON THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT: GENESIS, TRANSFORMATIONS, CONSEQUENCES Philip G. Zimbardo Stanford university Christina maslach university of california , Berkeley Craig Haney university of california , Santa Cruz PROLOGUE Philip G. Zimbardo In a sense, this CHAPTER does not fit well in the frame of this book on Milgram's paradigmatic research on obedience to authority. It is less about extreme forms of inter personal compliance to the demands of unjust authority than it is about emerging conformity pressures in "total situations" in which the processes of deindividuation and dehumanization are institutionalized. However, in another sense, it is the natural complementary bookend to chapters tied to Milgram's obedience paradigm, which between them hold up the lessons of the power of social situations to overwhelm individual dispositions and even to degrade the quality of human nature. Whereas a central contribution of Milgram's paradigm was to quantify aggression and thus the extent of obedience using a simple but impressive technology, the value of the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) resides in demonstrating the evil that good people can be readily induced into doing to other good people within the context of socially approved roles, rules, and norms, a legitimizing ideology, and institutional support that transcends individual agency.

CHAPTER 11: REFLECTIONS ON THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT: GENESIS, TRANSFORMATIONS, CONSEQUENCES Philip G. Zimbardo Stanford University Christina Maslach University of California, Berkeley

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