Assignment Task: Select 1 of the social experiments (Zimbardo, Asch, Milgram) and identify a current event or situation that similarly illustrates obedience and conformity. the event you choose should also raise questions of ethics.
- Compare and contrast the experiment you selected with the contemporary situation.
- Identify the social roles of participants and what behaviors reflect those roles.
- Examine the specific behaviors of the participants.
- Discuss the internal and external consequences of the participants' behaviors, for example, shunning, passivity, degradation, and insolence.
- Explain how social roles in the contemporary situation resulted in the outcome.
- Describe a realistic alternative scenario that could have resulted in a different, more ethical outcome for this situation. Relate this alternative scenario to a concept in social psychology.