{"id":52405,"date":"2013-04-19T21:52:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T19:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/?p=52405"},"modified":"2013-04-19T21:58:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T19:58:40","slug":"the-power-of-conformity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/the-power-of-conformity\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of conformity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eigentlich eher traurig als lustig, erinnert mich diese kleine Experiment aus den 60ern unweigerlich an jene Szene<\/a> aus \u201eDas Leben des Brain“<\/i>. <\/p>\n

Der Psychologie Professor Philip Zimbardo<\/a>, von dem ich w\u00e4hrend meiner zweiten Ausbildung kiloweise lesen durfte, untersuchte dieses Verhalten etwas sp\u00e4ter in einem viel krasseren Kontext und nannte es den Luzifer Effekt<\/a>, der tats\u00e4chlich eine eigene Domain hat. Sch\u00f6n aber, wenn andere, die es ebenso handhaben w\u00fcrden, weil fast ein jeder es so handhabt, dar\u00fcber lachen k\u00f6nnen. Und um den Bogen zum ersten Satz dort oben zu kriegen: \u201eIch nicht!<\/i>“ Pssst!<\/p>\n

In The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, Philip Zimbardo tries to explain how seemingly ordinary, average people can become involved in, or passively fail to oppose, evil acts. Zimbardo is the researcher who designed the (in)famous 1971 Stanford prison experiment, in which students were randomly assigned as „prisoners“ or „guards“ for an experiment on how prison affects human behavior. The experiment, meant to last two weeks, had to be called off after 6 days because of the extreme negative effects on, and brutality emerging among, the participants. Zimbardo’s study, as well as others such as Milgram’s obedience experiment, highlighted the role of conformity to social norms and obedience to apparent authority figures in leading people to engage in actions that would seem to be so ethically unacceptable that any decent person would refuse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n