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Looking at the Stanford Prison Experiment this week was interesting but perplexing. I had heard many details about the experiment previously, but it was interesting to hear it from Zimbardo himself, and the way he saw this experiment. Putting aside the shocking lack of proper ethics used in this experiment, there seems to be oneContinue reading “Week 6: Expectations & Evil”

               This week we covered a lot of topics both in our readings, presentations, and our discussion. The question that stood out to me is how hate escalates within a group to the point of mass violence such as Ku Klux Klan or even the Nazi Party. According to Baumeister, there are many factors. AContinue reading “Week 5: Evil and How it Grows”

               The readings and discussion this week covered a lot of different topics surrounding evil. One of the ones that stood out to me is the topic of revenge. Baumeister covers a lot of other reasons that people commit evil acts without believing themselves to be evil, and revenge is one of the more understandableContinue reading “Week 4: Revenge and Other Causes of Evil”

The focus this week on empathy was an interesting and gave some answers surrounding the role of empathy in evil. Baron-Cohen highlighted that there were different outcomes when a person has no empathy based on the type of empathy they’re lacking as well as the social and biological factors that lead to this lack ofContinue reading “Week 3: Empathy and Evil”

Our discussion this week was interesting yet frustrating due to the surrounding questions regarding the definition of evil and the complexity of evil. The narrow definition of “pure evil” that make us think of evil and good as dualities is not as definitive or as simple as we’d like. Many people believe that evil isContinue reading “Week 2: The Myth of Pure Evil”

I’m Hailey B. I’m a psychology major, so I’m very excited for this course because I love social psychology and how it relates to studying and explaining human behaviour in a social context. I’m excited to examine the reasons why people commit ‘evil’ acts and the contributing social and cognitive factors that increase the chanceContinue reading “PSYC 4720 Week 1: Introduction”