Ausleben von Stereotypen von Gefangenen und Wärtern[Bearbeiten]
Ali Banuzizi und Siamak Movahedi kritisierten, dass die Versuchspersonen in dem Experiment nicht auf die durch das simulierte Gefängnis produzierten Situationen reagierten, sondern vielmehr in dem Experiment ihre Vorstellung davon auslebten, wie sich Wärter und Gefangene in einem Gefängnis "typisch" verhalten. In dem Experiment sei gar nicht ein richtiges Gefängnis geschaffen worden, sondern lediglich der Anschein eines Gefängnisses erweckt worden, in dem die Teilnehmer dann lediglich versucht hätten, sich entsprechend der Stereotypen von Wärtern und Gefangenen zu verhalten.[1] Die Frage, die sich dann jedoch stellt, ist, inwiefern die Konflikteskalation, die letztlich zum Abbruch des Experiments geführt hat, zu erklären ist.

Reproduzierbarkeit des Experiments[Bearbeiten]
Zweifel bestanden an der Generalisierbarkeit der Ergebnisse des Experiments. Im Gegensatz zum Milgram-Experiment, in dem insgesamt das Experiment in verschiedenen Varianten in tausend Abläufen durchgeführt wurde, bestand das Standford Prison-Experiment aus insgesamt nur einem mehrtägigen Ablauf. Zwar wurde das Experiment in einem Fall mit ähnlichem Ergebnis in Australien reproduziert [2], in einer anderen Reproduktion für die BBC kam es jedoch nicht zu einer Konflikteskalation, sondern zu einer Solidarisierung zwischen Wärtern und Gefangenen.

Beeinflussung des Ergebnis durch den Versuchsleiter[Bearbeiten]
Im Stanford-Prison-Experiment übernahm Philip Zimbardo sowohl die Rolle des Versuchsleiters als auch die des Gefängnisleiters. Damit bestand die Möglichkeit, die Versuchspersonen so zu beeinflussen, dass das von ihm erwartete Ergebnis herauskam. [3]

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford-P ... ent#Kritik

Self-Righteousness Bandwagons and Revenge Fantasies

Sometimes there's a story about some person doing something absolutely unspeakable, like harming children or animals, or wearing socks with sandals. Most of us go, "This is awful! This person is a monster!"

Only one person can post first, though, so once someone has said, "This is awful! This person is a monster!" I guess no one else can say it again, it's like wearing the same dress to a party as another guest. Even if you say, "This is terrible! This person is inhuman!" it just looks like a cheap knockoff, like you're barely worked up about the victim.

No, to really prove you are a guy that disapproves of child molesters, you must up the ante.

"I hope the guards look the other way in jail and this person is dismembered by the other inmates!" That's the kind of thing that shows that child molestation really upsets you and you are not a lukewarm sissypants who just calls him a "monster" and goes off about your daily business. Someone who would do that does not really care about crimes against children, like you do.

Likewise, the next person can't just go, "Yeah, dismemberment, I'm good with that," lest they sound complacent. "No, that's too good for him!" they'll say. "I hope he's skinned alive and rolled around in some gravel and run over by a truck, and then they revive him with cutting edge medical advances so that he can have his intestines force fed to him after they are set on fire."



I understand people have to express some kind of strong emotional response to horrible crimes, but I think there's a difference between your actual feelings and the feelings you come up with after you see where other people's feelings are setting the bar. If you're telling other people that their revenge fantasies aren't good enough and one-upping them with your own, you may have crossed that line.

Sometimes the same thing happens without the violence, where people compete with each other to come up with the most derisive jokes. Like if there's a story about a stupid politician saying something stupid, people might just constantly one-up each other with generic "stupid" jokes, like, "He's so stupid it takes him an hour to make minute rice," or "He's so stupid he got run over by a parked car!" And while he is stupid, nobody ends up talking about the stupid thing he said, or what its effect is going to be, because they're too busy showing each other that they're much smarter than that stupid politician.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-stupi ... s-stories/