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The Stanford Prison Experiment That Was Run In 1971 By Professor Philip Zimbardo

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The Stanford Prison Study
I would like to discuss the Stanford Prison Experiment that was run in 1971 by Professor Philip Zimbardo. The aim of this prison experiment is to study the psychology of humans such as ethics, the psychological impacts of authority, and social expectations (Leithead, 2011). This experiment studied the situations of the volunteers who acted like prisoners and guards. But, the prison experiment shut down in just six days although they supposed two weeks. The reason is that the volunteers who acted like prisoners and guards suffered from mental attacks such as some suffered from mental breakdowns and some feel like sadism, and the experiment was rapidly out of control (Leithead, 2011).
We can see how harmful this experiment
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