Stanford Prison Study: The Stanford prison study was created by Philip Zimbardo who wanted to know what happens if you put good people into bad situations. He created an experiment in which individuals were given a role as a prisoner or a guard. They were then placed in a mock prison and instructed to play their roles for two weeks. As the individuals accepted the roles more and more they started to lose reality. Prisoners started going crazy because they were being treated so terribly by the guards. They were humiliated, forced to do physical work, and placed into solitary confinement. By the fifth day many prisoners had tried to quit the experiment or had already quit. The leader of the experiment, Philip Zimbardo, was also playing a role