Stanford Milgram Experiment Analysis

The Stanford prison experiment was similar to the Milgram experiment because both of the experiments focused on the responses of people when there are underneath authority. Zimbardo was interested in what would happen when you would put good people in an evil place. He also focused on if the situation out of the institution can control your behavior or does your attitude and values will overcome the situation from the negative environment. For Zimbardo negative environment, he had created a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford Univeristy psychology building. He advertised college students to play the role of a guard and a prisoner. In the study, he manages to find 24 male college students to perform in his experiment. The students were
The prisoners were treated just like real prisoners, they were arrested without warning. When the prisoners arrived they were stripped naked, sprayed, and had all their belongings taken away. They slept in a cell that looks similar to a real cell. The prisoners were called by numbers instead of their actual names. They had chains wrapped around one ankle. In a short period of time the guards and prisoners begin settling into their roles. The guards begin to harass the prisoners. The guards would think of degrading ways to make the prisoner feel bad about their selves. The prisoners were continually insulted and giving irrelevant orders. The prisoners soon begin to fall into their roles as prisoners. When the prisoners had become more obedient to the guards, the guards become more hostile and forceful. One prisoner the ring leader of the rebellious begins to act out and misbehaves towards the guards. He could no longer handle the prisoner role and decided he wanted to leave. But was asked to stay and see if things would change. He had thought that was a way of him not being able to leave, so he went back and told the other prisoners that they could not
The new male student saw what was happing in the monk prison and soon wanted to leave but was said he couldn’t leave. He then began to act out and decides to go on a hungry strike. When the study went to an end on the fifth day because of one psychologist thoughts of the prisoners, she felt that they were being abused by the guards and that it was terrible what Zimbardo were doing to the boys. I felt the Zimbardo went against ethics in his experiment in many ways. Such as when he made the prisoners strip to humiliate them. He failed to protect his participants that were prisoners. He has not given the prisoners any sense of comfort. The prisoners were not protected from psychological harm. Even though he did protect their identity the participants lost their sense of personal identity because of the uniforms they wore. He did not set boundaries between the guards and prisoners to believe what was real and make believe. He had allowed the guards to take their frustrations out on the prisoners. He also lied to one of his participants who no longer wanted to participate in his study that the experiment was over. Instead he moved his study to another place in the same