What Are The Strengths And Weaknesses Of The Zimbardo Experiment

The Stanford Prison Experiment’s purpose, according to Zimbardo, was to see if people’s behaviors are affected by their social situations or by their morals and personalities. Zimbardo’s hypothesis was that prison guards would be brutal due to their mentality of being prison guards. The prisoners likewise would be rebellious due to the fact that prisoners are people who broke the laws in the first place. There are several weaknesses in the way that Zimbardo designed his study experiment. One was that his sample didn’t successfully represent the population. There were a total of twenty four participants, of which were generally white male college students from the middle class. The second weakness in Zimbardo’s experiment was that it was influenced