The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most famous experiments in psychology's history, conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by Stanford University psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. The experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming either a prisoner or prison guard. Randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards were assigned to student volunteers in a mock prison situation. The participants adapted to their roles well beyond Zimbardo's expectations, as the guards enforced authoritarian measures and ultimately subjected some of the prisoners to psychological torture, while many of the prisoners passively accepted the abuse and, at the request of the guards, even harassed other prisoners. The experiment affected Zimbardo himself, who, in his role as the superintendent, permitted the abuse to continue. Two of the prisoners quit the experiment early and the entire experiment was abruptly stopped after only six days. The results of the experiment have been presented to illustrate the impressionability and obedience of people when placed within a situation of presumed institutional authority and socially legitimized stereotypes.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment was conducted by psychologist Philip Zimbardo in 1971 at Stanford University.
Philip Zimbardo was the lead researcher in the Stanford prison experiment, which he designed and supervised. He played a significant role in shaping the study's methodology and overseeing its implementation.
The Stanford prison experiment had been conducted from August 14 to August 20 and was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. 24 male students were selected with roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison.
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A procedure is all the steps used to do an expirament in order. the expirament is when you test your hypothesis and is designed to answer your question. the procedure is all the steps of the expirament.
A scientist who made an expirament that was better then rutherfords expirament his was more avanced becuase with milikan's expirament you could study one drop at a time but rutherfords expirament requird you to study the whole cloud and by stuying the drop you could figure more out about the substance.
Power makes some people cruel.
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