Summary: When Zimbardo did lesperimento guards and prisoners took his girlfriend to see how it proceeded lesperimento and already they were going crazy things, but Zimbardo was normal, he was contgiato while his girlfriend, who had not lived days in close contact with lesperimento chairamente saw the monstrosity that was being made
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How to become a hero looks like a title of a movie of the 80's or even worse a shot of some crap-guru who tries to sell you a magic wand No not so!
Studies prof. Philip Zimbardo, starring dellultimo episode of the podcast, led him to important considerations both theoretically and practically about becoming heroes.
All this based on a small and recent experience, the one who saw me on the side of the legendary psychologist for the presentation of his latest book, in short, a dream come true.
As I hope you have heard in today's episode of the Zimbardo studies they have touched on many aspects of human life.
I've omitted several maybe we'll talk more later, but for me this is the most important.
Emphasize the fact that people are not good or bad but that this fine line and can be crossed by anyone if you put in a bad situation.
I know it seems an excuse, and indeed must not indemnify the people from their responsibilities.
We saw how important nellultima episode assume our responsibility, if we start pointing fingers at the situations we find ourselves in the risk just to see us without any intentional capacity.
And instead we always have the power to act, but not easy, especially if the context in which we are incorporating it, just like the frog lapologia not realizing the gradual increase in temperature ultimately boiled in its own broth.
It remains our personal responsibility to be aware of being finished in a bad context and try to turn it into a positive context or, at least, run away.
We spent months talking about how we have around us a sort of first function that affects us, for we have also dedicated some verses addressed to the modern Nobel prizes, remember?
The context gives meaning to things and very simple to comprehend: imagine you are a huge fan of AC Milan and find yourself in front of the stage (during the derby) a guy with a dellInter magic.
Surely you are particularly on the lookout.
If you see him at the bar the next day with the hat and you dellInter that of Milan the most that can happen a few jokes.
Or imagine yourself a guy all muscular, tattooed and with angry look.
But you just walked into a gym in MMA, it more than normal While if you meet this guy in a dark alley at night, the impression that you will be completely different.
Trivial?
Yes, but effective!
The contexts in which we live implicitly decide our behavior and our reactions.
And when we are treated as prisoners tend to behave like convicts the famous Pygmalion effect.
Of this we have already talked a lot in the past it is a very interesting phenomenon related to our expectations: if you expect a person behaves probably so X will tend to induce yourself attitude X.
And our dear self-fulfilling prophecy: if you think your neighbor is stupid you tend to ignore all evidence to the contrary, and instead remember and highlight all the stupid things he did.
If at this time you expect to find nonsense and banality of my words, you can be sure that sooner or later will come out.
Research in psychology has tried it in different ways and in different sauces, even atrocious.
One of these lesperimento of the Stanford prison, but there are even more interesting, such as those related to mental hospitals.
Years ago a colleague interned colleagues with a smoky diagnosis of psychotic episode.
They were all psychiatrists and psychologists, the head dellesperimento has really struggled to pull out some of them.
Not because they were really mad but because the context made it seem that they were well, and the staff just wanted the signs of psychosis and not mental health.
If when you enter a new group known that Thomas aggressive towards you and towards others, you tend to think that it has always been.
And so every time we talk stari very careful not to annoy you.
Maybe not true, you met Thomas at a particularly stressful day, to doubt in your brain tells you to be careful because it easily sinnervosisce.
This into another historical period he would have saved his life.
Why it matters little that Thomas is really so what matters to know how to respond to a possible threat from him.
In other words, in the past it was always better to think harm than good.
And for this reason that very difficult to eliminate prejudices, because they have been helpful and in many cases still are.
However, when this phenomenon is combined with other features, it can escalate.
When you are creating the group, a common consensus, nelladditare another group (effect of in-group and out-group), when the bias leads us to see each other as wrong or worse, cause of our problems, then things may fall.
I know I could tell you of the Nazis and actually part of us that happened but there are things far more nearby, such as spreading hatred towards migrants in our country.
In the well-known myth of Plato's cave, who is free, he comes out of the cave, turns out not to observe the reality and come back to tell the others risk their lives.
What he tells us one of the fathers of our dear western culture.
The same can happen to the heroes.
Who raises his hand to ask for clarification when no one does, violating the effect spectator, even one who is likely to be held up as a dissident or the one who did not understand and has yet to figure out etc.
He who hesitates when he sees a guy is slapping his girlfriend in front of everyone, is likely to be seen as what they do not do their own business, after all between husband and wife better not put your finger.
If we had put his finger a few years ago when a young girl was beaten and burned in front of several cars passing by, right here by us in Italy, maybe there would be a dead less.
Who really acts as a hero acting often likely to feel out of place and think things like, But why no one intervenes?
Maybe I'm wrong if I say something?
Maybe better to do like everyone else ?.
According to several studies we humans have evolved thanks allincredibile ability to mimic the behavior of those around us.
If you go in a completely unfamiliar place, where you do not know what are your manners, you will tend to imitate others.
This is the best way to act without knowing exactly what you are doing.
You do it even when you have to directly save your skin: if you see a group of people running with the frightened face in the opposite direction to yours, you turn around and probably run too.
Run it without knowing why, I just have seen those frightened faces and immediately not only run but will probably follow that group, because they seem to know what to do c.
So if all make fun of a person, even if you're not one of those people who likes to tease, you'll find yourself to be a part of that small group of bullies.
Once again we are faced with an evolutionary behavior.
We tend to imitate us, and this allows us to learn things at the speed of light, while our primate cousins take years before doing some things, if everyone uses the web here is that you begin to use it, but in the beginning, not knowing why.
You probably already knew the terrible experiment by Stanley Milgram, the funny thing to think that Milgram and Zimbardo comrades in high school, with a common destiny and a common origin.
In fact Milgram was the son of Jewish immigrants fled allolocausto.
Few know that for lesperimento Milgram had 16 different versions, usually it is told only one, the most terrible and spectacular.
However in one of these tests, the subjects were not alone with the experimenter but in other real subject company.
If the first person stopped and refused to continue with the punishment (the shakes, watch the video if you do not lhai done) and the second person assisted, he tended not to administer potentially damaging shock.
Conversely, if the subject before us gave fatal shock was much more likely that we too would come to that point.
Why?
Obviously for an imitation phenomenon, which not only allowed us to survive, but can also make us fall into the trap.
Actually we also talked about this issue nellepisodio dedicated to social pressure to Asch's experiments memories?
The group, along with the environment can influence us very heavily.
This whole rundown on the effects discovered in recent years by social psychology is not a way to show how much we have discovered, but the basis for understanding how you break down barriers to act as a hero.
That's why on the one hand we can all be heroes and dallaltro we are really few to count heroic actions.
Linsegnamento Zimbardo shows us that we can all make a difference by acting, rather than seeing the bad things of life.
Every day we have the opportunity to act in this direction, but as we saw not easy, because we are imprisoned by our own mental schemes that, on the one hand dallaltro protect us and limit us and make us blind.
Become a hero means acting at random, distinct, but rather be able to overcome the psychological barrier created by the situation, context and not how we are made.
It would be enough to remember 20% of what we told today (and between the links of the episode) and be able to challenge these trends at the right time to become one.
What simpler to keep in mind the effect the spectator.
This one of the most incredible effects and at the same time complex, to the point that it becomes invisible.
In fact it can happen in many contexts, not only in the case of violence before our eyes as in the example of Kitty Genovese.
But as we have seen in school, who raises his hand or not, or during a political debate, where he faced perhaps with absurd claims no one stands up to ask for an explanation, why?
Because nobody does.
And more people are present at quellevento and fewer people tend to raise their hands.
The wonderful thing that a single person raise your hand to motivate l80% of Astati to do the same, once again we tend to imitate us.
You do not believe me?
The same thing happens online, maybe a Pirla writing a bad comment to my post, I leave no badarlo them for days.
Then a few psinellino turn their boxes and begins to respond in kind, what happens?
That suddenly that content fills psinellini defending my point of view, wonderful.
Unfortunately it also happens the other way, I leave the comments of the idiot them and other prila follow the example of the first, by downloading their unreasonable anger on that post.
In short, a ubiquitous phenomenon and will continue to talk about it in our QDE this week.