Stanford Prison Experiment



Stanford Prison Experiment

Introduction

The Stanford experience (Lucifer effect) is a study of experimental psychology conducted by Philip Zimbardo in 1971, the experiment was done with the mission to see the effects of prison conditions (Philip, 2008). It was created with students playing the roles of guards and prisoners. It aimed to study the behavior of ordinary people with the conditions defined for the participants (Blass, 1992).

Discussion

The prisoners who were on the roles of being a subject in the experiment that ought to be an experiment on the behavior of the prisoners in the prison but unfortunately the experiment ...