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Ethical Criticisms Of Stanford Prisoner's Experiment By Zimbardo

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Stanford prisoner experiment is one of the interesting movies because The study has received many ethical criticisms, including lack of fully informed consent by participants as Zimbardo himself did not know what would happen in the experiment (it was unpredictable). Also, the prisoners did not consent to be 'arrested' at home. ( McLeod, 2017) A situation-centered approach, in contrast, focuses on factors external to the person, to the behavioral context in which individuals are functioning. Although human behavior is almost always a function of the interaction of person and situation, social psychologists have called attention to the attributional biases in much of psychology and among the general public that overestimates the importance
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