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The exercise was also shared with other groups such as a Stanford psychology department as well as a prison population. The Stanford psychology department looked at the test scores that were collected before, during, and after the experiment and verified the fact that the students performed better when they were in the "better" group as well as after the experiment was over. When the students were part of the group that were being discriminated against, they actually performed worse on their test scores than when they were members of the other groups.
The exercise was reproduced many times and with many different groups of people. The results are all consistent with the experience of the students. It is possible for otherwise good people to perpetuate racism and discrimination without consciously deciding to. The process of discrimination can...
This has several implications for all kinds of different in-group and out-group scenarios.
Such behavior is not confined to judgments about other people based on skin or eye color, but can be founded on a wide range of different factors that can define a group such as religious beliefs, political beliefs, and many other dividing factors. Gender is also a common dividing factor that can be used as a discriminatory basis. However, by participating in the exercise the group can quickly and easily have an experience in racism and discrimination. The members seem to quickly identify how powerful that the social systems can be in perpetuating different ideas in how individual differences can be used to divide people.
Unfortunately, without law enforcement petty crimes by the criminally insane can get way out of hand, such as the man who burned down his girlfriend's house during a fit of paranoia. It is also difficult because the men who are incarcerated obviously require intensive treatment. Unfortunately, intensive, dedicated treatment is not always available in the prison system, although they do the best they can. 3. Are financial and/or policy related issues
Epigenetics Video The PBS video uses identical twins to illustrate how people with the identical DNA may still have differences. Those differences result from epigenetics, according to the narrator. To illustrate how epigenetics work, the video visits a scientist at Duke University. One mouse is hugely obese and yellowish, and the other mouse with identical DNA is brown and thin. The reason why is because while both mice have the same gene
For example, the "Big Box" stores like Home Depot and Best Buy come into an area and small, local companies just can't compete with them and go out of business. They don't care, it's all about the bottom line with them, and they don't worry about killing small business throughout the country. These companies are based on greed, they don't give good service, they don't care about quality, and
Police Mentally Ill Policing and Mentally Ill Individuals There is a significantly higher proportion of mentally ill individuals in the criminal justice system than compared to the same proportion of the United States in the society in general. It is estimated that a mentally ill individual is about eight times more likely to enter into the criminal justice system than they are a mental hospital. These individuals, as the video and the
United States, it is estimated that up to 350,000 inmates in prisons suffer from some sort of mental illness. In fact, the U.S. penal system holds three times more people with mental illness than the nation's entire psychiatric hospitals. Some have seen a trend that tends to incarcerate the mentally ill in order to keep them locked away from society; often the only alternative because of the dwindling funding
Deception Detection The video provided is a documentary of the men who came to be called The Norfolk Four, and who were accused of the rape and murder of a woman none of them actually knew. The largest problem with this case and the documentary regarding it was not even that the men were wrongly accused, because that can happen to anyone. The issue is the lengths to which the police