The study had many ethical issues, one being that Zimbardo had a lack of fully informed consent from the participants, the participants did not know that they were going to be arrested at home. They also had a large deal of humiliation and distress that they experienced during the study due to the conformity of roles on the guards part. However, Zimbardo thought that the withholding of this information was allowed as it was a major part of the procedure. The guards had to face the unpleasant fact that they had decided to mistreat the prisoners, and if they had been prisoners they may have been faced with psychological
The study had many ethical issues, one being that Zimbardo had a lack of fully informed consent from the participants, the participants did not know that they were going to be arrested at home. They also had a large deal of humiliation and distress that they experienced during the study due to the conformity of roles on the guards part. However, Zimbardo thought that the withholding of this information was allowed as it was a major part of the procedure. The guards had to face the unpleasant fact that they had decided to mistreat the prisoners, and if they had been prisoners they may have been faced with psychological