Jonathan, as a new police officer, believed that his job was to people in the community. his partner, who is an experienced officer, told jonathan that being a good officer involved looking for any reason to arrest and detain others. jonathan now spends his day trying to arrest as many people as possible. based on the findings of zimbardo's prison study, jonathan's change in attitude about his job illustrates the impact of?

Role playing on attitudes

Explanation:

The Stanford Prison Experiment, conducted by the researcher Zimbardo, focused on human psychology and the affect of role playing and power. Role playing is found to change the attitude and behavior of an individual if they decide to take on a role in seriousness. This role playing can be of vital influence as a research study found that students who have been involved in role playing and drama plays tend to focus on the attitude, behavior and emotions of the role so much that they sometimes overlook their own behavior and attitude taking up the role in actual life. Here, Jonathan has been told by his experienced partner to look for any reason to arrest and detain others and hence, the use or abuse of power combined with role playing effect leads to role playing on attitude.

Fear of being stigmatized  

Explanation:

Stigma is taboo in many counties. Many people who suffer from a different mental disorder, they have afraid of being stigmatized. The people are blamed for their condition and called them by their disorder name. People suffer from different disorders afraid they have been stigmatized in the society and get different treatment in the society. Thus most people afraid to tell about their disorder. People make them realize being ashamed because of such a type of disorder.  

Thus from the same condition happened with Robert. Robert is suffering from depression and he is worry to take the treatment because of the stigmatization of these disorders in society.