Monday, October 10, 2016
Human Behavior Experiments
I found it very interesting how we will act when we're in a group versus alone in a situation. It's amazing how we can conform to ideas and beliefs simply because the group is making that decision. I feel like it shouldn't be this way but we as human beings can't avoid it as it is part of who we are as individuals. The prison experiment was intriguing because it showed us the extent to which we will go to when given a lot of power and no responsibility for any of our actions. The guards in the experiment took it so far to the point where they couldn't let the experiment go for a week because of the torture the prisoners were going through. Another interesting one is the McDonald's one where they took orders from the person who was claiming to be a police officer. It was so eye opening how words could manipulate someone's actions into doing things they would never think of doing. This reminded me of the Holocaust where they would take orders form Hitler and actually do what he told them. It's hard to believe there are people that would go to those types of levels and there only excuse be "he told me to".
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I also found the McDonald's case to be really interesting, it really does make you think how someone could do these things because someone "told them to". But, you really have to ask yourself, what would you do in that situation?
ReplyDeleteI think that the human behavior experiments were very interesting. They all showed how people can transform into a completely new person when there is an authority or group telling them what to do. I also think that Julia brings up a good point because we would all like to think that we would be the odd person out who would not go along with these experiments and stay the person we are. I think in reality most of us would go along with the human behavior experiments because we don't want to upset the authority or be out of line with the the rest of the group.
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