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An outsider’s view

Tutors, examiners, researchers and textbook writers all tell us how important it is to be active in our learning. Mike Cardwell gives some useful activities that will consolidate and enhance your understanding of the article you have just read.

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After reading Professor Maslach’s article and pondering over the issues it raises, have a go at some of the activities below. They will help you understand how studies such as the Stanford Prison experiment do not exist merely as objects of academic curiosity, but are models of many of the otherwise inexplicable aspects of human behaviour in real life.

You can read more about the Stanford Prison experiment (SPE) study at www.prisonexp.org/. Philip Zimbardo (1999) has this to say about the ethics of this study:

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