Social Psychology
In 2004 there were allegations of abuse and human rights violations that occurred in the Abu Ghraib prison.
There have been many interpretations of what happened, and there are many aspects of Social Psychology
that could have been at play in this situation. For this Case Assignment you are to familiarize yourself with
three examples of famous social experiments—The Stanford Prison Experiment, Asch’s Conformity
Experiment, and the Milgram Obedience Experiment, and apply the concepts and theories associated with one
of these to the Abu Ghraib prison situation.

