Salvador Gutierrez P7 09/27-10/1

This week in AP Psychology, we learned about the Stanford prison experiment thingy. A couple of Stanford students participated in the experiment. They were told in advance that the experiment involved someone being a prison guard and another being a prisoner. Half of the students were assigned as the prison guards and the other half of students were assigned as the prisoners. The crazy thing is that the “prison guards” were really mean towards the “prisoners” and made them do humiliating things. The “prison guards” spent their ordinary days of their ordinary lives being kind, like always, but when they went back to the prison and put on the uniform, they were mean. They made the “prisoners” do pushups, act out scenarios like: Frankenstein hugging his wife, and many other things. The experiment was cut short because the students were really into their roles, the “prisoners” honestly believed they were real prisoners. The data from this experiment is that everyone has some evil in them and will show it under certain circumstances. This is very true. Take me for example. I am nice to everyone but I know for a fact that if I went to war, I would be somewhat evil towards the enemy. You also see this everyday, everyone will tease another person or talk bad about him/her behind his/her back. From now on, I’m going to be nice to everyone no matter what because I do not want them to become evil and be mean to me. It is like how Dane Cook said in that one joke about the weird guy in the office. That everyone would not talk with the weird guy, leave whenever he was present, and talk bad about him behind his back and spread rumors about him. But Dane Cook would give him a chocolate bar everyday. And the day came when the weird guy barged into the office and began shooting everyone, but he did not shoot Dane Cook. Instead, he thanks him for the chocolate.