Zimbardo’s Prison Experiment
One of the most illuminating role and identity
experiments was done a number of years ago by Stanford University psychologist
Philip Zimbardo and his associates.
25 They created a “prison” in the basement
of the Stanford psychology building; hired at $15 a day two dozen emotionally
stable, physically healthy, law-abiding students who scored “normal average” on
extensive personality tests; randomly assigned them the role of either “guard”
or “prisoner”; and established some basic rules.
It took the “prisoners” little time to accept the authority positions of the
“guards” or for the mock guards to adjust to their new authority roles. Consistent
with social identity theory, the guards came to see the prisoners as a negative
outgroup, and their comments to researchers showed they had developed stereotypes
about the “typical” prisoner personality type. After the guards crushed
a rebellion attempt on the second day, the prisoners became increasingly passive.
Whatever the guards “dished out,” the prisoners took. The prisoners actually
began to believe and act as if they were inferior and powerless, as the guards
constantly reminded them. And every guard, at some time during the simulation,
engaged in abusive, authoritative behavior. One said, “I was surprised at
myself. . . . I made them call each other names and clean the toilets out with
their bare hands. I practically considered the prisoners cattle, and I kept thinking:
‘I have to watch out for them in case they try something.’ ” Surprisingly,
during the entire experiment—even after days of abuse—not one prisoner said,
“Stop this. I’m a student like you. This is just an experiment!”
The simulation actually proved
too successful in demonstrating how quickly
individuals learn new roles. The researchers had to stop it after only 6 days
because of the participants’ pathological reactions. And remember, these were
individuals chosen precisely for their normalcy and emotional stability.
What can we conclude from this prison simulation? Like the rest of us,
the participants had learned stereotyped conceptions of guard and prisoner
roles from the mass media and their own personal experiences in power and
powerlessness relationships gained at home (parent–child), in school
(teacher–student), and in other situations. This background allowed them
easily and rapidly to assume roles very different from their inherent persona
lities and, with no prior personality pathology or training in the parts they
were playing, execute extreme forms of behavior consistent with those roles.
A follow-up reality television show conducted by the BBC that used a lowerfidelity
simulated prison setting provides some insights into these results.
26 The
psychological contract
An unwritten
agreement that sets out what
management expects from an
employee and vice versa.
role

Dayton, OH — A father who beat his two daughters with a cord has been charged with child endangerment and corporal punishment.

Greg Horn, 35, whipped his daughters, ages 12 and 14, with a video cable after walking in on the girls recording themselves “twerking.” Twerking involves wobbling or jiggling the hips and buttocks. Or, to borrow Miley Cyrus’s definition, “It’s a lot of booty action.”

The video was first posted on WorldStarHipHop.com before making its way to YouTube. Several reaction videos popped up shortly afterward.

According to the police report, one of the girls had visible welts on her legs and open wounds in the thigh area from being beaten with the video cable. The girls’ mother noticed the wounds and called police.

The 30 second video sparked a debate over whether Horn’s actions were abusive or good parenting. Some felt that he went too far — at one point, one of the girls screams, “Daddy, stop,” but he continues to beat her — while others felt he was teaching his daughters a lesson and preventing them from engaging in more inappropriate behavior. Ultimately, even though the video had gone viral and left many wondering why the police hadn’t been notified, it was the mother’s intervention that led to an arrest.

Horn’s indictment comes during the first week of Child Abuse Awareness Month.

“The goal is always to keep kids safe,” Montgomery County Children Services spokesman Kevin Lavoie said. He also added that when people are reporting cases of child abuse, they don’t have to leave a name or even have definitive proof that abuse is taking place. The suspicion of abuse is more than enough.

“It may be nothing,” Lavoie said. “But rather than analyze it, let our specialists figure it out and the best course of action.”

Although it was initially reported that the girls were beaten for recording themselves twerking, they told police they were beaten for sneaking out of the house.

Greg Horn is scheduled to appear in court on April 16 for his arraignment hearing.

Do you think Greg Horn was justified in beating his daughters with a video cable, whether for twerking or for sneaking out of the house?

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/603749/father-indicted-for-beating-daughters-over-twerking-video/#Qwvp6Vdqq6JlyXqb.99

Lusaka Wife Tells Court ‘He Inserts His Finger Instead Of Manhood’

By MUNIDE ZULU
A LUSAKA woman says she wants her 14-year-old marriage dissolved because she can not cope with her husband’s weird acts of making love.
Anna Phiri told senior court magistrates Robert Zulu and George Kaoma that her husband, Frederick Mwanza prefers using his fingers than the traditional way of making love with his manhood.
“I get irritated and uncomfortable with my husband’s behaviour of inserting his fingers in my womanhood when making love. This is the reason why I want to divorce him because I can’t take it anymore,” Phiri said.
But Mwanza who, has been on separation with his wife for five years told the court that he enjoyed touching his wife in that despicable manner.
In passing jugement, the court dissolved their marriage saying they have stayed on separation for a long time.
This is in a case in which Phiri sued Mwanza for divorce. They got married in 1999 and have two children together.
Phiri told the court that problems in their marriage started two weeks after they got married in 1999 as a result of her husband’s irrational behavior who she said used to bring his girlfriend in their matrimonial home.
She said Mwanza is also a violent man, who had at one time tied a rope on her neck after a quarrel.
She added that she later unearthed an axe he was hiding under the bed, which she suspects he wanted to use to kill her.
In his defence, Mwanza told the court that problems in their marriage started when his wife discovered that he had a girlfriend who was heavily pregnant at the same time with her.
“I told my wife that I impregnated my former girlfriend at the time I married her. She has never trusted me since then and she accuses me of having extra marital affairs every time I make a move,” he said.
Mwanza said he suspects his wife has a boyfriend she wants to marry her.
He said their endless marital differences have made them separate many times with the latest being, where they stayed apart for two years.
“I know that she wants to leave me because she has a man who wants to marry her,” Mwanza said.

Living in the Power of the Resurrection

Reasons Why the Resurrection is Believable:
Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, he is risen, Bible

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When I was first witnessed to about Jesus Christ in 1971, I was so ignorant about the Bible and the Christian faith that I did not know that Christians claimed that Jesus had been physically resurrected. I have yet to meet anyone else who is that ignorant of the resurrection as an historical event, but we could all better understand the significance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ to our daily lives. As the Apostle Paul wrote, experientially knowing the power of Christ’s resurrection was one of the focal points of his life:

Philippians 3:10a
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings…

Paul’s desire was to know intimately the Lord Jesus Christ, especially the power of his resurrection. Note that this power is connected to “…the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings….” That means that Paul saw a connection between the power of resurrection and his facing various kinds of “death” in his life. Without a death of some kind, there is no need for, or value in, a resurrection.

The pattern that Jesus lived in the days of his “passion” (i.e., suffering and death) is one that he invites us to follow and to model our lives after. Thankfully, in this day and time we will not have to be crucified, tortured for 40 hours, and humiliated publicly in every way imaginable, but we are going to have to follow this pattern in the footsteps of our Master if we want to grow to our full spiritual potential. Here is the progression:

a) A struggle in our own personal Garden of Gethsemane that invites us to relinquish our will in favor of accepting God’s purposes in our lives.
b) A period of suffering and trial that will lead to
c) the death of something in us that we have held as dear or necessary so that we can
d) experience the power of his resurrection and
e) live in “newness of life” under the authority and Lordship of the resurrected Savior.

Let us examine each of these in turn.
“…not my will but thine…”

In every life that is devoted to God, there are times when one must decide whose will is going to be decisive. Jesus modeled complete trust in God, which included the belief that God’s purposes for his life were superior to his own. This truth, by the way, cannot be embraced from a Trinitarian perspective, which sees Jesus as God instead of as a man having a God and having to trust Him. Clearly the latter view gives us a better opportunity to see ourselves doing what Jesus did.

Jesus’ trust in God his Father was not something that always came easily, as in the Garden of Gethsemane. He prayed intensely into the night, hearing God’s “No” the first and second times he asked, but continuing to pray for other alternatives. Finally, he was able to embrace the death that was ahead of him, and go to the Cross with the joyful expectation of resurrection and eternal rewards (Heb. 12:3). Did not God reward Jesus abundantly for his faith? Will He not do this for us as well?

Will God sometimes ask us to do things that we don’t want to do? Most definitely. Just ask Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Paul, et al. When what He wants is very different from what we want, this can be a struggle. Too often we will not give up our self-centered perspective without the Lord having to wrestle us to the mat! As we grow in faith (trust) by obeying him, we see that the Lord’s ways are the better ways, and we learn to trust him more and more.

There are many examples of this clash of wills that we have encountered through the years. Maybe you can relate to one or more of these:

God convicts a husband to stop his angry outbursts against his wife and kids that he has used to keep them from annoying and frustrating him—and concentrate on loving and accepting them instead.

God asks a wife to stop criticizing her husband for his apparent lack of interest in spiritual things and learn to respect him just the way he is—to be thankful instead for all that her husband does to serve her and their kids.

God wants a teenager to call her parents to come pick her up from a party where the liquor and drugs were brought out after the host parents went to bed, risking being thought of as “uncool.”

God wants a man to accept a lower paying job with another, newer company in order to have more time with his family—risking both his job security and the comfortable lifestyle made possible by the higher income—not to mention the wounding of his pride.

God calls an “empty nest” couple to sell their house and belongings and become missionaries in Africa.

God asks a mature minister to step aside so that others can have an opportunity to minister and learn. She is asked to take on a mentoring more than a performing role.

In each of these situations, God asks someone to give up something they value in order for Him to enrich their lives in other and new ways. Is this not an invitation to “die” to something? Of course we are not going to want that, and will typically resist it as long as we can, but when we finally understand that God’s purpose is to free us from bondage and fear, we can learn to embrace this “death.”

The husband fears losing control and being humiliated. The wife stands to lose her sense of spiritual superiority over her husband. The teenager risks losing social standing. The employee risks financial deprivation. The older couple must face their fears of not being taken care of in their old age. And the minister will lose whatever boost to her self-esteem she gained in performing as an effective minister.

But in every one of these cases, can we not see that the resurrection power of God could bring much deliverance? The husband could find less control but more love and acceptance. The wife could find more joy, peace, and personal fulfillment. The teenager could find better friends with similar values and less pressure to conform to what is considered “cool.” The employee is freed from the need to keep climbing the corporate ladder and finds satisfaction in reasonable job expectations and a richer family life. The older couple finds greater satisfaction in living a life of serving and loving that completely trumps their fears. And the minister discovers to her delight that she derives more pleasure from seeing others succeed with her help than from performing herself.

Suffering and Trial

After we have declared our commitment to doing the will of God, we should expect a reaction from our flesh, and from Satan, who plays upon the strings of our flesh like a master cellist. The world will test our commitment to God, and we will suddenly have multiple opportunities to break our word. Whether we have determined to lose weight or to witness more, we should expect that our commitment will be met by spiritual opposition. But “this too will pass.” We must stand strong in these times of trial, letting them wash over us. Rather than trying to gut it out on our own, we must keep asking the Lord to give us strength in these times to help us overcome. To do the will of God requires that we have the power of God—the power of resurrection. As Jesus bravely accepted the trial of his faith, not becoming angry and resentful, so must we. Learning to love, be at peace, find joy, and be kind to others while in a faith trial is good training in Christ-likeness.

Facing “Death”

It is interesting to consider that, according to the Bible, all bondage or limitations on our freedom come from one source: the fear of death.

Hebrews 2:14 and 15
(14) Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death―that is, the devil―
(15) and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.

So it is only logical that in order to expand our freedom to love and serve, we must overcome the fear of death in all its forms. There have been literally thousands of phobias identified, but they all have one thing in common: a fear of death. In counseling settings I have often heard people speak of death when expressing their feelings about having to change something in their lives. If they were to give up control, they would “just die.” If they were to admit they were wrong about something, they would be trampled to death emotionally by those who overpower them. If they were to accept some negative feedback about themselves, they would die. If they gave up their commitment to appearing youthful, they would quickly slide into senility and death. But the truth is, all these “deaths” are fictional, and hold us in bondage. Once we face them and refuse to be tyrannized by them any longer, and trust that God will be there on the other side of letting go of these things, we discover greater faith, peace, joy—all the things that only God can provide.

So losing our fear of death in all forms is a great way to expand our freedom. And can’t we expect our loving God to work in us to free us from this fear of death in all its forms so we can love Him and others more? Facing and enduring trials of faith can bring about an increase of faith in God’s power to deliver and resurrect. But they also often involve us giving up some of our attachments: to comfort, to knowledge, to ease, to looking good, to being the giver rather than the one in need, etc. We have to allow these things to die in us before we will see the great power of God in our lives. Paul often speaks of death as that which frees us to serve God and bring life to others.

Romans 7:6
But now, by dying to what once bound us (i.e., the law), we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

2 Corinthians 4:10-12
(10) We always carry around in our body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
(11) For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body.
(12) So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

2 Corinthians 6:4, 5a and 9b
(4) Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses;
(5a) in beatings, imprisonments and riots;…
(9b) …dying, and yet we live on…

The Power of His Resurrection

Believing that God would raise Isaac from the dead is what enabled Abraham to be obedient to sacrifice him (Gen. 22:5; Heb. 11:17-19). Our faith in the resurrection power of God in Christ Jesus will enable us to put to death anything in the flesh that is limiting our ability to love and serve God. Nothing else that we believe will help us as much as recognizing that whatever we give up, or put to death, God will resurrect into something far more beneficial.

In a way, we grow spiritually like organisms that have exoskeletons rather than internal skeletons made of bone. For them to grow, they have to shed their old hard “crust” and grow another, bigger one in its place because what has protected them in the past is now stifling their growth. We develop such “skins” of self-protection–abilities that we depend upon too much, or formerly successful ways of being that are no longer helpful or fruitful. In fact, they are killing us. We must shed the old and trust that God will give us something better in place of it. We must believe that His creativity and resourcefulness is sufficient to provide what we need.

Living in “Newness of Life”

The last stage of the pattern Christ gave us is what we might call “the lifestyle of grace.” As we continually live in humility, acknowledging our weaknesses and the infirmity of our flesh, we are transformed more and more by grace into the likeness of our Lord and Savior. We live as those who have been purchased with the price of his life, and allow him to live his life in us through our obedience. By living under his authority, and acknowledging his Lordship over all aspects of our lives, we relinquish our pride, our autonomy, our self-will, and we come to desire to please the Lord more than pleasing others or ourselves. We know that his wisdom is vast, and his spirit is within us, enabling us to live every minute as if we have been raised from the dead. What joy was set before Jesus, enabling him to go the Cross knowing that he would be raised again to glory. So too we can face our lives with joy, knowing that our God and our Lord will give us grace to overcome our trials, and resurrection power to be raised from the various “deaths” we are called to die.

This has been a basic exploration of a practical perspective on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. As his resurrection is the most important fact of the life of Jesus Christ, so living in the power of his resurrection is the most important key to enjoying the abundant life that he promised. This is not a life without trials, but one full of deliverance and the overcoming of obstacles. It is also a life marked by the joy that comes from being loved by One so wise and wonderful, who can be trusted to the uttermost.

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