The Stanford Prison experiment was created by Psychologist / Professor Zimbardo to further educate himself about the social structure of life and how people adapt to their surroundings. He created this experiment in which he gathered students from the university, out of those students who applied to be apart of this experiment, ten students became prisoners and eleven became guards. This experiment started off well, zimbardo gather information and learned a few things. He then started to realize that the actors that took on the guard role took it to a whole other level, they became more into their roles. They took torturing to a whole other level causing numerous individuals with the prisoner roles to have psychological problems, emotional …show more content…
Well in all honesty I believe that the class has no significant impact because fear is just fear. If someone is going to be tortured because they committed a crime and young adults are in charge they do not care about the economy stability. However if we take the same situation and compare it to the prison life in reality, money does matter. Another variable would be women, if we put women in this exact situation regardless of class women would have broken down faster than the men did because in my opinion most women are not emotionally and mentally strong like men. This experiment was ethical to do because due to the knowledge obtained from the reactions, Zimbardo verified that humans adapt to their surroundings, if you set a situation up they will normalize it regardless of what it is. If I was in Zimbardo’s shoes and incharge of the whole experiment I would have probably stopped the experiment long before it got out of control due to human victimization. Trading inhuman punishment for the knowledge and education in return was some what right but the way that it evolved took the experiment to a whole other level, it should not have escalated that