The Stanford Marshmallow experiment is a well known psychology experiment made in the late 60s on Delayed Gratification. The experiment involved giving a child a choice between having a marshmallow now or wait a bit longer for a timer to ding for two marshmallows. In later studies the results found that the children that waited overall had more successful lives.
The Stanford Prison Experiment was conducted by psychologist Philip Zimbardo in 1971 at Stanford University.
the Stanford prison experiment
In Zimbardo's classic Stanford prison experiment, participants succumbed to the power of
An experiment can prove or disprove a hypothesis.
Prove causation
Zimbardo's role in the Stanford Prison Experiment was as Superintendent. He was also the man behind the experiment tracking the changes in personally behavior when people were thrown into their role as a prisoner or a prison guard.
Power makes some people cruel.
That depends on the result of the experiment. The experiment is a way to test a hypothesis, and it's completely fine if the experiment disproves the hypothesis. Ideally, though, the experiment will support the hypothesis.
many people will uncritically follow the commands of those in authority.
Galileo
to prove it worked.