Compare And Contrast The Five Psychological Tactics Of The Guards

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THE GUARDS At the beginning of the experiment the guards were told at orientation to do anything to maintain law and order, avoid physical violence, and prevent prisoner escapes (Sedacca 2017). They did not have adequate training on how to appropriately handle intense situations. The five psychological tactics the guards developed to keep control of the environment was to dehumanize the prisoners, took their name away, their masculinity, the way the prisoners wear their hair and took away all decision making. The guards dehumanized the prisoners by humiliating them. The guards would make the prisoners defecate in buckets in their cells, taking away their basic human rights, and demeaning them by calling them names. The guards took the prisoners