Zimbardo’s thoughts on the experiment are interesting not only because he conducted it, but because he was a part of it, acting as the prison warden - which, needless to say, has serious ethical connotations. (The controversy was such that there was even a mostly-accurate movie dramatization released in 2015!) Without giving too much away, the experiment ran into some serious roadblocks that meant it had to be discontinued after only six days. The Stanford Prison Experiment was Zimbardo’s 1971 study looking into the effects of different situational factors on conformity by putting college student volunteers into a fake prison environment for -2 weeks. The Lucifer Effect is Professor Philip Zimbardo’s first detailed account of his infamous Stanford Prison Experiment and the conclusions he took from it.
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