Zimbardo

• Zimbardo looked at wether people would conform to social roles
• The experiment was supposed to last 2 weeks but it lasted 6 days.
• The experiment was conducted in Stanford University basement as a mock prison.
• The "prisoners" were arrested from their homes.
• 24 males students were tested for mental stability.
• Zimbardo played as the Prison warden or superintendent
• Evaluate Zimbardos Prison Experiment:

  • Ethical issues: Protection from Harm and right to withdraw
  • Zimbardo also conformed
  • It ignores dispositional factors -Some guards had sympathy
  • Haslam and reicher showed Guards chose which way they wanted to behave
  • In the BBC replica, the prisoners overpowered the guards.
• Haslam and reicher showed Guards chose which way they wanted to behave