Zimbardo: A Comparative Analysis

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I think that human nature is NOT just given to people, and that it depends on what happens in your life.
For example in the “Stanford Experiment”, or a prison simulation where Philip Zimbardo wanted to test something out. Zimbardo put an ad in the paper claiming that volunteers would be assigned either a guard position or a prisoner position, and they would get paid $15 a day for it. Out of the 70 people that applied, he chose the most well-balanced 24 people. 12 guards were chosen, and 12 prisoners were chosen. The guards were told that NO physical violence was allowed, they could not beat the prisoners. So at first, the experiment is going well and nothing out of the ordinary is happening. But as time went on, the prisoners rounded up and

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