Philip Zimbardo’S Famous Quote Was Inspired From His Stanford

Philip Zimbardo’s famous quote was inspired from his Stanford prison experiment and it states â€Å"The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces†. This quote summarized means that when a human is given or in the right scenario, humans will take on one of the most savage behavior. Philip Zimbardo’s experiment that happened in 1971 was all about taking in male volunteers to a prison like setting and he had them take roles as either prisoners or guards. A writer Shirley Jackson wrote a short story called â€Å"The Lottery† in 1948, the story is about a small village who has a special yearly lottery that is ancient but of importance to the people who live there and they†¦show more content†¦The first to become blind were put into an asylum to help contain the blindness and the ministry is very unhelpful and this poor man along with his wife and the doctor and his wife who still has her sight are tortured and mistreated leaving to die of hunger for days and some killed in the process of trying to escape. Now to the examples, these people start to take in animalistic behaviors in order to survive. They are more than willing to go to great measures in order to escape, stay alive, eat, and receive pleasure. The first example that helps prove it is, â€Å"Those two mouths searched until they found each other, and then the inevitable happened, the pleasure of both of them†¦ forgive me, I don’t know what came over me, in fact, we were right, how could we† (Saramago 174). In this quote, the doctor’s wife has caught her husband having sexual intercourse with another woman and she isn’t surprised at all. She acknowledges that she has not been pleasurable towards her husband and she understands that he had to find a way to exert those urges and so he betrays his wife. This man who must have been urging for quite a while did the inevitable and although his wife accepts what has happened you can understand how he was willing to get caught and lose his relationship. Another great example would be where further in the book more people are put into the asylum and wards and sanctions start to develop and soShow MoreRelatedStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 Pages10.5/12 ITC New Baskerville Std Credits and acknowledgments borrowed from other sources and reproduced, with permission, in this textbook appear on the appropriate page within text. Copyright  © 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005 by Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval