Zimbardo

• Zimbardo


  Psychologist who conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment
• Stanford Prison Experiment


  • Aimed to investigate if prison violence was a result of situational or dispositional factors
  • Used 24 male college students as volunteers
  • Participants were psychologically evaluated beforehand
  • Experiment was a lab simulation in the basement of Stanford University
• Procedure


  1. Zimbardo used 24 male college students as volunteers

  2. Participants were psychologically evaluated beforehand

  3. Experiment was a lab simulation in the basement of Stanford University
• The experiment was a lab/simulation, the Stanford University basement was made into a mock prison