“The Stanford Prison Experiment” conducted in 1971 by Philip G. Zimbardo was looking for the answer to the question “What happens when you put good people in an evil place?”. This experiment studied the behavior of two groups consisting of young adults. The participants were given either the role of “Prison Guard” or“Prisoner” randomly. Essentially, this experiment’s goal is to find out if there is a correlation between a situation that puts people in a position of authority and power and their behavior. It is also important to note that the behavior of Philip G. Zimbardo also changed due to the authority and responsibility he had, taking on two influential roles in the experiment. The nature of this experiment allowed for many potential results, there was the possibility that the 2 weeks of the experiment ends up being uneventful. This is however not how it went down, the experiment was cut short due to the horrible things happening in the “prison”. After the first day of the experiment, things escalated quickly and the “Prison Guards” made sure that the “Prisoners” suffered, physically and mentally.
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The “Prisoners” were stripped and had paper bags on their heads which made them to the “Prison Guards," less human. In the same way, the “Prison Guards” wore reflective sunglasses, this caused the “Prisoners” to see them less as humans and more like monsters or robots because they could never make eye contact. In “The Obedience to Authority Experiment,” the number of people who continued with the test was much higher when they were distanced from the “Student”. We can assume that if we recreated the “Stanford Prison Experiment” and simply removed the sunglasses from the experiment, the result would be that the “Prison Guards” wouldn’t be as cruel to the “Prisoners” because they are able to see them a little bit more as a fellow human
The “Prison …show more content…
The “Prisoners” were stripped and had paper bags on their heads which made them to the “Prison Guards," less human. In the same way, the “Prison Guards” wore reflective sunglasses, this caused the “Prisoners” to see them less as humans and more like monsters or robots because they could never make eye contact. In “The Obedience to Authority Experiment,” the number of people who continued with the test was much higher when they were distanced from the “Student”. We can assume that if we recreated the “Stanford Prison Experiment” and simply removed the sunglasses from the experiment, the result would be that the “Prison Guards” wouldn’t be as cruel to the “Prisoners” because they are able to see them a little bit more as a fellow human