Even though Zimbardo's prison experiment is 46 years old it, the findings were so punctual that it is still talked about today. Zimbardo lead the experiment in 1971 with Craig Haney and Curtis banks. The experiment was conducted in the basement of the psychology building, which they converted into a small prison block.. The Experiment was originally scheduled to be conducted for a 2 week period but due to the results Zimbardo was getting they cut the project at just 6 days. Somewhere of about 75 students had volunteered to be apart of the psychological study, and only 24 had been chosen to participate.According to Maria Konnikova Zimbardo had the volunteers answer questions about there life such as there families and their physical and mental
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They even brought them to a police precinct to be booked and fingerprinted and placed in holding cells until they would be transferred. The only thing that happened that doesn't normally happen was that they had been blind folded and brought to the Stanford Prison or Stanford Psychology department. So how Zimbardo made up the cell block was to set it up with three cells and one solitary confinement room for if any of the prisoners were to misbehave. According to Saul McLeod once they had arrived they had been stripped naked had their heads shaved heads and had all of there personal property removed from them. It was there that there identity had basically been stripped away by them only being referred to as the number they had been given. The prisoners couldn't even refer to their fellow cellmates as there real names they had to use their ID number (McLeod). According to Maria Konnikova they had to wear gowns because prison tended to feel emasculated, so Zimbardo thought that it would have increased the feelings of emasculation (Konnikova). Now the guards had it much better off, they got to wear identical uniforms, carrying whistles so they could alert the other guards of any issues. As well as night sticks. The one things that made the guards stand out so much was the glasses
They even brought them to a police precinct to be booked and fingerprinted and placed in holding cells until they would be transferred. The only thing that happened that doesn't normally happen was that they had been blind folded and brought to the Stanford Prison or Stanford Psychology department. So how Zimbardo made up the cell block was to set it up with three cells and one solitary confinement room for if any of the prisoners were to misbehave. According to Saul McLeod once they had arrived they had been stripped naked had their heads shaved heads and had all of there personal property removed from them. It was there that there identity had basically been stripped away by them only being referred to as the number they had been given. The prisoners couldn't even refer to their fellow cellmates as there real names they had to use their ID number (McLeod). According to Maria Konnikova they had to wear gowns because prison tended to feel emasculated, so Zimbardo thought that it would have increased the feelings of emasculation (Konnikova). Now the guards had it much better off, they got to wear identical uniforms, carrying whistles so they could alert the other guards of any issues. As well as night sticks. The one things that made the guards stand out so much was the glasses