Questions about the Roles & Situations poster

What’s on the Roles & Situations poster?

The claim against The critique, side by side. The claim: Ordinary students became abusive guards; The claim: Roles overwhelmed individual disposition; The claim: Stopped after six days; The claim: Widely cited as showing situational power; The critique: Guards were explicitly coached toward harshness; The critique: Demand characteristics were strong; The critique: Small, self-selected sample; The critique: Not replicated under better controls; The critique: Reicher and Haslam's BBC study found different results; Situational forces are real and well evidenced elsewhere. This particular study is we…. Included because every course covers it — and because knowing the critique matters more than knowing the finding.

Who is the Roles & Situations poster for?

Roles & Situations belongs to the Psychology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning social can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Roles & Situations poster?

Often cited as proof that roles overwhelm character. The methodological critique is substantial. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Roles & Situations belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Roles & Situations?

Helping Behaviour, Attitudes & Behaviour and Attribution sit alongside Roles & Situations in the Psychology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Helping BehaviourAttitudes & BehaviourAttribution

Is the Roles & Situations poster free to download and print?

Yes. Roles & Situations downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Psychology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Roles & Situations poster print at?

Roles & Situations is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Roles & Situations loses nothing.Printing guide