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Zimbardo's Defences - You Know, the Guards Have to Be Tough
Brian resnick quoted a few lines from one of the recordings in which he, i guess it was the student warden, whose name was jaffy. And asked zimbardo like, you know, how do you explain this seeming contradiction? And zambardo replied, well, the point is, telling a guard to be tough doesn’t mean telling a prison guard to be mean or cruel. Many of the guards became of their own volition, playing the role of what they thought was a prison guard. Um, and he concluded, so i reject your assumption entirely. So what do you think of zimbardo's defences that we just gave the guards kind of