Zimbardo And The Stanford Prison Experiment

The Stanford Prison Experiment is perhaps one of the most known and controversial psychological experiments in both psychology and criminology. While the Stanford Prison Experiment did invoke questions as to the results of the experiment, it invoked more questions as to ethics in psychological experiments and what is acceptable. The Stanford Prison Experiment by Philip Zimbardo asks for student volunteers for a paid experiment where students would be randomly selected to play guard and prisoner in a mock prison at Stanford University. The experiment was called off by Zimbardo himself after being confronted by a college and many of the prisoner’s emotional breakdowns.
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