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Isolation: How It Leads To Altered Behavior

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of a civilized society. When placed in situations where emotional bonding is withheld, power is one-sided or personal identity is stripped, people find that such hostile environments breed the  potential for altered behavior and moral abandonment that bears little resemblance to the otherwise normal, healthy state of the people who are engaging in it. II. ISOLATION AND ALTERED  BEHAVIOR: 3 EXAMPLES The point of Zimbardos (2009) study when he first came up with the Stanford Prison Experiment was to document how  social forces of power and identity sway otherwise ordinary people into exhibiting antisocial behavior. The level of deviance and character disintegration Zimbardo (2009) ultimately uncovered was much more than  anyone ever expected; in fact, one psychologist who walked into the fifth day of the six-day experiment was overwhelmed with disgust to the point of having to leave. One  of the most important aspects that came about both during and after the experiment was putting the human research subjects in such an ethically questionable situation. Even Zimbardo (2009)  could only speculate how the experiment would inevitably conclude before it was actually conducted, never having the ability to address the ethical element of something he never anticipated to occur.  When he did see the undesirable transition his "guards" were taking with regard to treatment of the "inmates," however, he still allowed the experiment to continue despite loud objections  to the contrary. Describing his experiment as being both ethical and unethical at the same time, Zimbardo (2009) defends his choice to allow the experiment to continue even after realizing  the inhumane treatment some of the guards were bestowing upon the inmates. Citing the ethics committee guidelines as reason why he did not stop the research right then and