RVN: The Prison Inside Ourselves โ Stanford Prison Experiment ๐
Short recap of the series so far
In Day 2 we saw with the Dartmouth Scar Experiment how people experience discrimination that isnโt there at all โ simply because they expect to be carrying a โscarโ. ๐ช
In Day 3 the Milgram Experiment showed how ordinary people do extreme things under the pressure of authority. โก
Today we continue with an experiment that reveals how quickly normal people fully adapt to the role they are given.
24 healthy, psychologically stable students were randomly assigned as โprisonersโ or โguardsโ in a mock prison in the basement of Stanford University.
The experiment was supposed to last two weeks.
It was stopped after 6 days.
What happened?
The โguardsโ quickly began humiliating, intimidating, and psychologically abusing the prisoners.
The โprisonersโ rapidly became depressed, passive, and some suffered real emotional breakdowns.
The roles became so powerful that the guards grew increasingly sadistic and the prisoners started behaving like real inmates.
Important: the participants were not sadists or criminals. They were ordinary students.
Narratief:
โThat was an extreme experiment from the 1970s. We would never do that.โ
Realiteit:
The experiment shows how quickly normal people adapt to the role they are assigned.
The situation (the power structure) proved far stronger than personality.
Zimbardo himself later said:
โWe discovered that good people can do bad things simply by being placed in a bad situation.โ
How is this used today?
Companies and organizations create roles and structures that elicit certain behaviour (call centres, bureaucracy, social media moderation).
Governments and institutions put people in roles of โcontrollerโ versus โcontrolledโ.
Social media reinforces this: you are given a role (victim, activist, perpetrator, hero) and you start behaving accordingly.
The OIM-lesson:
If you allow yourself to be placed in a role within a corrupt or manipulative system, you will change too.
Thatโs why itโs so important not only to complain about โthe systemโ, but to actively build parallel structures in which healthy roles and responsibilities are possible.
Because if you keep playing along in a sick prison, you will eventually become either guard or prisoner โ and often both.
What do you think?
How quickly would you change if you were given a certain role?
And how do you recognize the moment when you must refuse to play along? ๐ช
Read for yourself. Check for yourself. Refuse to play along.
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**RVN: The Prison Inside Ourselves โ Stanford Prison Experiment** ๐
**Short recap of the series so far**
In **Day 2** we saw with the Dartmouth Scar Experiment how people experience discrimination that isnโt there at all โ simply because they expect to be carrying a โscarโ. ๐ช
In **Day 3** the Milgram Experiment showed how ordinary people do extreme things under the pressure of authority. โก
Today we continue with an experiment that reveals how quickly normal people fully adapt to the role they are given.
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### Stanford Prison Experiment (Philip Zimbardo, 1971)
24 healthy, psychologically stable students were randomly assigned as โprisonersโ or โguardsโ in a mock prison in the basement of Stanford University.
The experiment was supposed to last two weeks.
It was stopped after **6 days**.
**What happened?**
- The โguardsโ quickly began humiliating, intimidating, and psychologically abusing the prisoners.
- The โprisonersโ rapidly became depressed, passive, and some suffered real emotional breakdowns.
- The roles became so powerful that the guards grew increasingly sadistic and the prisoners started behaving like real inmates.
Important: the participants were not sadists or criminals. They were ordinary students.
**Narratief:**
โThat was an extreme experiment from the 1970s. We would never do that.โ
**Realiteit:**
The experiment shows how quickly normal people adapt to the role they are assigned.
The situation (the power structure) proved far stronger than personality.
Zimbardo himself later said:
โWe discovered that good people can do bad things simply by being placed in a bad situation.โ
**How is this used today?**
- Companies and organizations create roles and structures that elicit certain behaviour (call centres, bureaucracy, social media moderation).
- Governments and institutions put people in roles of โcontrollerโ versus โcontrolledโ.
- Social media reinforces this: you are given a role (victim, activist, perpetrator, hero) and you start behaving accordingly.
**The OIM-lesson:**
If you allow yourself to be placed in a role within a corrupt or manipulative system, you will change too.
Thatโs why itโs so important not only to complain about โthe systemโ, but to actively build parallel structures in which healthy roles and responsibilities are possible.
Because if you keep playing along in a sick prison, you will eventually become either guard or prisoner โ and often both.
What do you think?
How quickly would you change if you were given a certain role?
And how do you recognize the moment when you must refuse to play along? ๐ช
Read for yourself. Check for yourself. Refuse to play along.
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