Stanford Prison Experiment By: Harley Lorson, Pearl Patterson, and Tyler Miller

All about it…

August 14-20,1971 Stanford University Funded by US Office of Naval Research Main researcher: Philip Zimbardo

All about it (cont.)…

Police went around picking up college students

Mass Arrest Penal Codes 211 (Burglary and Armed

Robbery)

Philip Zimbardo

Born March 33, 1933 (82) Triple Majored in Psychology, sociology,

and anthropology Ph.D. from Yale University Best know for Stanford Prison

Experiment

Stanford Prison Exp. Heart of Darkness

Mentality Degraded as time passed

How?

Recruited male and female college students

Paid the students $15 a day Made a fake prison

Why?

Experience prison life See how the untrained guards

acted(Zimbardo) Record how the prisoners acted

Stanford Prison Exp. Today

No behavioral research that puts people in that kind of setting can ever be done again in America.”(Zimbardo)

BBC prison study (replica of Stanford study)

Works Cited

"Shocking "prison" Study 40 Years Later: What Happened at Stanford?" CBSNews. CBS Interactive, n.d. Web. 12 Apr. 2015.

Greenwald, Dave. "My View: Of Course We Tortured, Abu Ghraib and US Torture Policy." The People's Vanguard of Davis. Sacramento Web Design, 13 Dec. 2014. Web. 12 Apr. 2015.

Zimbardo, Philip G. "Stanford Prison Experiment." The : A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment. Philip G. Zimbardo, n.d. Web. 12 Apr. 2015.

Works Cited (cont.)

"The Lucifer Effect: An Interview with Dr. Philip Zimbardo." N E U R O N A R R A T I V E. The Pilcrow Theme, 20 Oct. 2008. Web. 12 Apr. 2015.

Eddy, Samuel. "Real Studies: Philip Zimbardo's (1971) Stanford Prison Experiment." Psycho Hawks. The Blix Theme, 31 Mar. 2010. Web. 12 Apr. 2015.

Melissa. "The Stanford Prison Experiment." Today I Found Out. N.p., 23 Mar. 2014. Web. 12 Apr. 2015.