How Would You Respond To Philip Zimbardo's Stanford Experiment?

For most people if you approach them and ask them if they would intentionally harm someone they would respond with the logical response which would be no, of course not. The majority of college students would also respond the exact same way, well what if you actually put it to the test and isolate them in a group with others and are told not to cause any physical and or mental health to the individuals. Would they obey these orders? Or would they see how far they can take things before they are caught or told not to? With Zimbardo’s Stanford experiment we can see first-hand how a group of men with said power behave.
In 1971 the study by Philip Zimbardo was constructed in the hope to analyze how regular people will react when given some power in a set environment and to show how a group of men will react when given a very broad task. A total of 24 college students were offered $15 each day if they were chosen to play any role, by determining what people they should choose they had a group of about 70 men take a small quiz to show how stable they were psychologically and physically. For the men that were chosen they got split into groups some were told …show more content…
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