Philip Zimbardo was a professor at Stanford University who lead the famous 1971 Stanford Prison experiment. Zimbardo wanted to “find out if the brutality reported among guards in American prisons was due to the sadistic guards (dispositional) or had more to do with the prison environment (situational)”. Part of the basement in a Stanford University building was converted into a mock prison. Everything was bored up and cells were made. Out of 75 volunteering male students only 24 were selected to be part of the experiment. There were 10 prisoners and 11 guards. Zimbardo wanted to keep things as real as possible making a solitary confinement area and having the guards change out every eight hours in groups of three. When the prisoners