The movie I saw in class a few days ago was still unfinished by the bell after class, so I went back to find it and watched it myself. The weakness of human nature is completely exposed in this transformed prison, which is even more heart-wrenching in contrast to the brilliance of No. 2093's human nature. Each individual prisoner is deprived of basic human rights and self-esteem, has no underwear, and is like a straight man performing tricks with another prisoner in front of the crowd. But the most chilling thing is that only two prisoners expressed near-crazy resistance, one cold-eyed hunger strike, the others either disobeyed their intentions, or went too deeply into the play, still honoring and succumbing to those Mr. . Correctional Officer (this is still the case in the United States, which has always paid attention to the concept of human rights, it is difficult to imagine what it will be like in areas without human rights awareness) The worrying part is simply that they are innocent and they The psychological injustice caused by being punished by the exclusive perpetrator. In fact, this experiment is really cruel, its results are shocking, and Zimbardo only wants to study the psychological impact of prison conditions on both prisoners and prison guards. I think this will cause injustice to the guinea pigs, They are always human. However, human psychology is very complicated. In an experiment, the variables are not easy to control. These prisoners are male college students who go to school obediently and have no criminal records, so when they face the harsh prison environment, they will not have " I deserve it, I deserve to be punished.” Such guilt feelings are equivalent to greatly increasing their guilt for no reason. It is reasonable to say that this will further arouse people’s psychological resistance, but the reality is not entirely like this, at least a great deal. Part of it is not. Of course, there are more other factors to consider. There are many in Zimbardo’s own narrative on Zhihu. I will only talk about the uncontrollable variables I think here.
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