Immunization Study or Stanford Prison Study? At first glance, the Immunization study would seem to have caused the most harm, but after reviewing the Stanford Prison study’s wide acceptance in psychology, the decision of which study caused the most harm is more difficult to determine for me, personally. The Stanford Prison study directly affected 21 undergrads, which is a low number; however, Susan Krauss Whitbourne, PhD (2013) struck me with her statement, “Zimbardo and his co-authors hoped that the emotional and human price of the study would provide a model for improvements in the penal system as a whole,” in her article, The Rarely Told True Story of Zimbardo’s Prison Experiment in Psychology Today. My thoughts are if the results of the
