ethics, ethics committee, situational influences, Stanford Prison Experiment, depression
When I started studying psychology back in 1978, a revelation for me was how important the surrounding environment and context is for determining our behaviour. This might appear to you to be a self-evident truth, but for me as a youngster growing up in the 1960s and 1970s it wasn’t. My childhood was still informed by post-Second World War austerity, and I was raised in a society where we were taught to take individual responsibility for ourselves, to see the origins of our actions as located in our thoughts, in our individual values, in our ‘character’. It was a welcome surprise when I discovered, at university, that behaviour was not purely self-determined.
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