Zimbardo Stanford Prison Experiment
THE ZIMBARDO’S STANDFORD PRISON STUDY
The Zimbardo Stanford Prison Study was conducted by Philip G. Zimbardo in 1971, at Stanford University. The experiment was to last two weeks and be conducted in the basement of the Stanford University basement. The 24 chosen participants, Students from Canada and US, would be randomly selected to either be a guard or a prisoner, with Zimbardo being the warden. The pay was 15 dollars a day; the study was to see how the effects of confinement, in prison life, with the situational variables in place how this would impact the human behavior. Do the prisons make criminals go more psychotic as the days past? Would good people turn sadists? Within this report we will find out if Zimbardo was able to complete …show more content…
After being spoken to by the warden in regards to their serious charges, the prisoners were lead to their cells (Zimbardo, 1999). On the way to their cells the prisoners were to stop by and get there gowns and were also required to wear nylon caps. This dress was to make sure that the prisoners were treated impersonally. The Guards were dressed in a uniform very close to what the normal jail guards in a prison would wear down to the silvered glasses. The Guards were given little training on how to act with the prisoners, however the guards were told not to physically punish them (Neil & Logsdon, 1988). The guards, besides the physical punishment, were free to do whatever as guards was felt necessary to maintain law and order. The guards took this guide and made up their own rules. Which these rules made were enforced by the warden (Zimbardo, …show more content…
This was so true, once all the documents and finding were brought together on this study. The researchers did not expect the study to go the way it did nor did Zimbardo expect the outcome. Zimbardo was affected throughout this study, even though he was trying not to get involved, he was drawn in and viewing things differently. This study was also criticized by many people for their believing that this study was unethical, and that it had violated ethical codes. Other critics stated that the lack of generalizable and natural authority factors, made this study untrue as well. If this study would have been done in today’s times, it would be shut down before it even started. There have not been any other studies of its kind due to the outcome of this
The Zimbardo Stanford Prison Study was conducted by Philip G. Zimbardo in 1971, at Stanford University. The experiment was to last two weeks and be conducted in the basement of the Stanford University basement. The 24 chosen participants, Students from Canada and US, would be randomly selected to either be a guard or a prisoner, with Zimbardo being the warden. The pay was 15 dollars a day; the study was to see how the effects of confinement, in prison life, with the situational variables in place how this would impact the human behavior. Do the prisons make criminals go more psychotic as the days past? Would good people turn sadists? Within this report we will find out if Zimbardo was able to complete …show more content…
After being spoken to by the warden in regards to their serious charges, the prisoners were lead to their cells (Zimbardo, 1999). On the way to their cells the prisoners were to stop by and get there gowns and were also required to wear nylon caps. This dress was to make sure that the prisoners were treated impersonally. The Guards were dressed in a uniform very close to what the normal jail guards in a prison would wear down to the silvered glasses. The Guards were given little training on how to act with the prisoners, however the guards were told not to physically punish them (Neil & Logsdon, 1988). The guards, besides the physical punishment, were free to do whatever as guards was felt necessary to maintain law and order. The guards took this guide and made up their own rules. Which these rules made were enforced by the warden (Zimbardo, …show more content…
This was so true, once all the documents and finding were brought together on this study. The researchers did not expect the study to go the way it did nor did Zimbardo expect the outcome. Zimbardo was affected throughout this study, even though he was trying not to get involved, he was drawn in and viewing things differently. This study was also criticized by many people for their believing that this study was unethical, and that it had violated ethical codes. Other critics stated that the lack of generalizable and natural authority factors, made this study untrue as well. If this study would have been done in today’s times, it would be shut down before it even started. There have not been any other studies of its kind due to the outcome of this