Why Is The Stanford Prison Experiment Unethical

The psychologist professor named Philip Zimbardo was the team leader of a group of researchers conducting a psychologist research that is known as “The Stanford Prison Experiment.” The Stanford Prison experiment goals were to observed and identify if an evil situation can become dominant over someone’s behavior, or if a person’s morality, values, and attitude can make a person to raise above a negative environment. I personally believed that the ethics in conducting such experiment is unethical, regardless, the future benefits that it might provide to society further on. When I saw the outcomes of the experiment, I was extremely impacted because the psychologist that were ruling the prison, should had never allow that the college students being …show more content…
I strongly believed that physiologist knew that such actions could have leaded to atrocious outcomes. The metal brutality of the guards towards the prisoners increased over the days. The experiment only lasted five days in which the guards were allowed to play around with a person’s mental and physical health. In addition, in the video of “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” it says that prisoner 8612 was released after speaking with Zimbardo. Prisoner number 8612, returned to the prison to release the remaining prisoners from the prison. However, the group of researchers and the fake guards of the prison agreed upon moving the prison somewhere else. Therefore, once prisoner number 8612 came back, he was told that the experiment was over, which was not thru at the time. I strongly believe that the researchers and the prisoners did not saw how disturb the college students became in such short period of time. This means that power corrupts people. The most notorious moment where the researchers started to interpret internal and external conclusions, was when prisoner number 819 was talking to Zimbardo, and heard the other prisoners screaming that prisoner number 819 was a bad a