Now, as the book progresses on, Zimbardo launches into his experiment which to me is quite interesting and impressive. In this experiment, Zimbardo is wanting to prove that in certain situations, normal good people can turn into perpetrators of evil who commit such behaviors. He calls this, “The Stanford Prison experiment” in which normal individuals were assigned to prisoners and guards as a test of psychology of imprisonment. After having done this, Zimbardo became witness to an extreme number of high levels of unpredicted cruelty. Upon further reading about this case, I must say that I was left surprised by the result as well. Before, knowing the outcome of the experiment myself, I thought that the guards were going to abide by what they
