Milgram Experiment Analysis

It was clear that the situation seemed to create the participants to act the way their behaviour did and it was nothing to do with individual personality. The experiment links into the Milgram experiment, in which ordinary people followed orders to give what they thought was electric shocks to people they could not see.
Participants' behaviour was slightly affected due to the fact that they were watched as opposed to a lurking variable (Hawthorne effect). This questions the reliability of the experiment and its findings to a certain extent, as we do not know how the participants would have acted as whole if they were not being watched. Even knowing they were being observed, guards and prisoners acted differently than normal. It was clear to see that many of the guards
Because the guards and prisoners were playing a role their behaviour may not be influenced by the same factors which affect behaviour in real life. It then means that the studies cannot really be linked to real life prisons. This means that the experiment, in some argument, could have been a waste of time because the student as actors as the prison guards might have been doing things out of the ordinary just to play up to the role of what they thought was a guard and therefore might not reflect real life prisons and indivualds actual prison behaviour.
I also think the experiment was morally wrong as the experiment started to become quite extreme even though in real life prisons, situations might not exactly tend to get that bad. For example, the health that the inmates were made to live in in my opinion was not fair, in the experiment it said that inmates were made to leave the bucket they used as their toilet in their cell and were not allowed to empty it. If the experiment had of lasted the whole 14 days, by the second week, that would be a health implication and I don’t think that should have been allowed as part of the