Stanford Prison Experiment Research Paper

The Stanford Prison Experiment was created by a psychology teacher named Phillip Zimbardo. There was 9 prisoners and 9 guards. Those that were chosen were arrested one morning and taken to the station where they were blindfolded. An ad was put in the local paper asking for volunteers for this project. This experiment was to see the psychological effects of being in prison. After reviewing over 70 applicants, they narrowed it down to twenty-four candidates. The candidates were college students from the United States and Canada, they also earned $15 a day. They were separated in two different groups labeled guards and prisoners. On the first day, there were no differences between the boys. Zimbardo used the basement in Stanford’s psychology department and called it the “Stanford County Jail.” The corridor was called the “yard” the prisoners were allowed to walk, eat, or exercise. The cells were created out of laboratory rooms. The doors were replaced with steel bars. There
In the beginning, they boys are still acting like a civilization. There is a leader and rules it seems off to a good start for survival. Then things take a turn for the worse. The boys start acting out and turning against each other. Rules were broken and it was chaos. There was always competition between Ralph and Jack. Throughout the book, they are slowly falling from a civilization. In my opinion, there was no hope from the beginning for them to stay in a civilization. The boys were too young to divide the rules properly and come to an agreement. It relates to the experiment because in the beginning there is no differences among the groups they come together for some time in hopes of getting rescued. With a few disagreements it slowly starts to break them apart. If the boys followed the rules they set in the beginning they may have had a better chance at