Zimbardo Stanford Prison Experiment

By conduction this experiment, Philip Zimbardo psychology professor and leader of the experiment, realized what the environment of a correctional facilitation is like. He also conducted this experiment in order to analyze the results of giving a normal person the right to authority. Giving one group authority and the other group no type human rights the experiment resulted into an unexpected turn of events.

In this experiment professor Philip Zimbardo wanted to see how different jobs and roles, labels, and social expectation played a factor in the environment of a prison. In the experiment no one was forced into taking part in the study. All of the participants offered to participate in the study. In order to create a realistic prison environment ten students were arrested and sent to a mock prison called “Stanford county prison”. In the experiment even from the start of the study the prisoners were already inferior towards the guards because they were outnumbered. In choosing the roles …show more content…
Prisoners could no longer bear the harsh rule of the prison guards and began to have mental break downs and outbreaks. One of the prisoners had to be released after 36 hours of the operation due to his outburst of screaming crying and anger. Three other prisoners had to leave the operation also because they began to show signs of mental disorder and show early stages of depression. The experiment was shut down after six days after Zimbardo’s girlfriend also a psychologist witnessed the poor environment and the abuse of the prisoners done by the guards.

Zimbardo’s experiment was able to recognize how different roles effected a person behavior. Also recognized how authority of over beings led to the feeling of superiority over the inferior. Zimbardo’s experiment led to a unexpected turn of events that were really unexpected the scarred the people who were