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What did Dr.Zimbardo ask the Navy?
To investigate the power and pathology of imprisionment
Who funded the experiment?
The Navy and the Marines
What did the Navy and Marines want to know?
The causes of conflict between guards and prisoners in the Naval prison
What was the Dispositional belief of a prison guard?
They were sadistic and insensitive
What was the Dispositinal position on Prisoners personalities?
Not respective of the law and order
Possessive, aggressive, confrontational
When did the study take place?
August 14-20 1971
What was Zimbardo interested in testing?
The Dispositional hypothesis of guards and prisoners
What did Zimbardo want to demonstate?
The condition of the prison were not a result of the type of person working in or imprisioned in it
How did Zimbardo believe this would help the Navy?
Help develop training to eliminate the deplorable condition in the prisons
Why was this experiment made?
The U.S. Wanted to understand how the brainwashing in Korea carried how
And how successful it was
