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PBS FRONTLINE: SOLITARY NATION

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“So much of who we are depends on our contact with other people, the social context in which we function, and when you remove people from that context, they begin to lose their very sense of self.”

Craig Haney, psychology professor from the University of California Santa Cruz

Inmates

Todd Fickett: _______________________________________________________________________________

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Gordon Perry: ______________________________________________________________________________

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Adam Brulotte: _____________________________________________________________________________

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Correctional Staff

Dr. Dan Bannish, Director of Mental Health, Maine State Prison:

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Rodney Bouffard, Warden, Maine State Prison:

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Others? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Keep track of various instances of violence and aggression here. Describe 4 separate instances and label them as instrumental or hostile aggression (Circle one).

Consider the frustration aggression hypothesis and how it might relate to one or more of the inmates here.

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How might aggression here be a way of making connection with another person? Who are they connecting with?

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Think back to social psychological concepts we have covered in the past. How might conformity, obedience, persuasion, self-fulfilling prophecy, stereotyping, discrimination, ingroup bias (just as examples) contribute to our understanding of why this type of punishment might work or not work? Pick 2 and apply to this situation.

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