Question

Describe how social roles, social norms, and scripts were evident in the Stanford prison experiment. How can this experiment be applied to everyday life? Are there any more recent examples where people started fulfilling a role and became abusive?

Answer 1

we can experiment be applied to everyday life by The Stanford prison experiment demonstrated the power of social roles, norms, and scripts in affecting human behavior. Social norms require guards to be authoritarian and prisoners to be submissive. When prisoners rebelled, they violated these social norms, which led to upheaval. The good guards were fulfilling their social roles and they did not object to other guards' abusive behavior because of the power of the situation.