In 1971, psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment to simulate a prison. He recruited some college students, half of them to be prisoners and half of them to be jailers. After that, the experimenters developed real hatred. On the fifth day of the experiment, the scene completely spiraled out of control.
Philip Zimbardo wrote the book "The Lucifer Effect" based on the experiment and made the following conclusions: The conclusion of the experiment is that personal temperament is not as important as we think, the difference between good and evil is not insurmountable, the pressure of the environment Make good people do terrible things.
The 2001 and 2010 Death Experiment films were based on this experiment and this book. There was also a film about the Stanford Prison Experiment in 2015. This time I don't plan to talk about this movie from a technical level, so I didn't deliberately compare the two versions of the death experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment.
The guards abused the prisoners, and the prisoners rebelled against the guard's management. The contradiction between them kept deepening, resulting in unstoppable hostility and hatred. This kind of hostility and hatred is very brutal and unbelievable. The prison guards mentally abused the prisoners. In the movie, it is pouring urine, pressing your head into the toilet, etc. (I watched the coded version, and there may be some deletions.) In real experiments, prisoners were not allowed to go to the toilet, they were forced to play with jumping goats, and prisoners were forced to imitate animal mating.
As a bystander, you may not understand why those ordinary people suddenly turned into perpetrators and villains who have dehumanized their humanity. Their position, their behavior is determined by their identity, status.
Ironically, as people's sense of identity deepened over the course of the experiment, all forgot that their identities were initially determined by lottery.
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