Stanford Prison Experiment Video with Phillip Zimbardo as Host Shown on November 9, 2004 13:27 - 20:20
The situation is often more powerful than individual personalities. The social situation significantly controls behavior. There are times when the social context works against us (e.g., Abu Ghraib prison abuses).
1.	The Prison Study shows what happens when you put "good people in a bad situation." The boundary between roles and the real person were blurred. Some psychologists feel that the obedience and prison studies violated ethical guidelines and should never have been done. The Prison study was planed for two weeks but called off after six days because of the change in the behavior of the prisoners and guards. Now institutional review board evaluate every experiment and would not allow the obedience and prison studies to be conducted.
2.	What are two reasons that we cannot attribute the abusive behavior of guards to their personalities?