How would you proceed with the situation presented in the case example? What would you say to Kyle? As the school social worker, you are called to the main office by the dean, who

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1. What kind of guard would you have been if you were a guard? How confident are you?
2. What prevented “good guards” from challenging the orders of tough or bad guards or countermanding them?
3. Would you have been able to endure the situation if you were a prisoner? What would you have done different from those people? Would you be willing to serve at least five years in a “real” prison?
4. Prisoners would be more likely to attribute guard brutality to the guards’ disposition or character than to the situation. What factors would lead them to do so?
5. Was it right to carry out this study? Was it appropriate to exchange the research’s knowledge for the participants’ suffering? Despite the fact that the Slide Show may appear to be somewhat objective regarding the events and experiences that occurred, the experimenters did not take this issue lightly.
6. How does this study’s ethical quandary compare to Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments’ ethical quandary? Would it have been better not to conduct these studies at all?
7. Would you have carried out this study if you were in charge of the experiment? Would you have stopped it sooner? Would you have carried out a follow-up investigation?