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and wardens. It was an experiment that revealed, in the opinion of some, human qualities concerning violence and control. It was also an experiment that many consider to be of
little value due to its broad and unscientific approach. The following paper offers an overview of the experiment. Overview of the Stanford Prison Experiment
As mentioned, this experiment took place in 1971. It was the idea of Philip Zimbardo, a psychologist who wanted to demonstrate that both prisoners and guards
would find themselves falling into roles they thought was expected of them, rather than acting in a way that was true to their own personality or moral nature. Zimbardo (2009)
notes, in relationship to his experiment, "My most notable study was the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, which was a classic demonstration of the power of social situations to distort personal
identities and long cherished values and morality as students internalized situated identities in their roles as prisoners and guards." The experiment involved
a mock prison facility. Advertisements were place in newspapers offering people $15 a day if they would participate in the experiment. Some say that the advertisements may well have lured
people with violent tendencies as they used the words "wanted for prison experiments" which could well have attracted particular types of people (Shuttleworth, 2008). There were 24 people, men, who
were chosen, predominantly white and middle class and they were split into guards and prisoners (Shuttleworth, 2008). The individuals who were chosen as prisoners were sent home to wait for
their instructions and then they were raided and arrested by surprise, and then subjected to being stripped, given numbers by which they would answer to, instead of names, and given
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