The Stanford Prison Experiment which was conducted by Phillip Zimbardo was a very crucial experiment and changed the whole study of psychology that the world now knows today. This experiment continues to be one of the most notorious and well known psychology experiments that has ever been organized. It took place in the basement of Stanford college in 1971. Zimbardo took students at the school and told them to play the roles of prisoner and guards. This experiment was supposed to be a six week experiment but they had to shut it down in 6 days. The rolls of the students who were "guards" went right to their heads. They believed that they could do whatever they wants to the "prisoners" and they mentally and physically abused them. Zimbardo who
