Thursday, November 4, 2010

Stanford Prison Study

During the period of time that we acted out our personality I realized that people started to feel bad for the way that they were acting towards each other. I felt better about myself because I didn't have to worry about hurting peoples feelings or hurting people.
The prisoner that I thought changed the most was prisoner #8612. Even though some of them did everything that they did and had small nervous breakdowns, 8612 had to leave early. He was getting so sick of people ordering him around, which he probably wasn't used to, that he came up with the idea to start lying about how he really felt. He was completely stubborn to all the mock guards and refused to do anything which lead to the other prisoners shunning him because they had to deal with a punishment because of his actions. He started giving out false information to the inmates about how there is no escape or way of getting out. With those actions he lost complete control of "leadership" to the prisoners, meaning he lost the way everyone looked up to him as. He literally then turned crazy because of his feelings and the situation he had been in. The point to were he didn't want to leave the place but later choose to because he was so mentally ill. He decided to come back and even release his "friends" from the prison because he didn't think that what was happening to them was fair.

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