In 1971 Dr. Zimbardo a psychologist professor at Stanford University conducted an experiment with 24 college student and recruited them to play the roles of guards and prisoners in a mock prison system. This experience was to gain insight of daily prison life between the guards and the prisoner when one has power, which we be the guards. In on the other hand the prisoner who will be the powerless this was the reason to create a prison environment that would fabricated simulation of a real life prisoners and guards daily activities.
Professor Zimbardo fabricated a simulation of a jail by converting the basement of Stanford University to a prison. The 24 male causation college students from various colleges in the United States were evaluation for any abnormalities before the experiment they all were normal and capable to do the experience. They would be
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These students was given instruction of the prison rule, but no instruction on how to conduct themselves as guards and prisoners. Moreover, they were informed that their role would be randomly selected whether they would be a prisoner or a guard to capture an unbiased observation of the mental and physical experience. The majority of the experiment would be video recorded and there would be limited privacy and no violence subjected to the prisoners. Therefore, the data would it be possible for the candidates have the prisoners to conform and strip them of full self-identity by having use a number to identify themselves. Of course this would be measured by the real prison system. However, the sense of power began to really change the personalities of the guard once they see that the prisoners were conforming to their demands. The authoritarian roles created