Stanford Prison Experiment - 40 years old
It has been 40 years since one of the most (in)famous experiments in psychology took place - Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment. What took place has become required reading on just about every human behaviour module on every Psychology course.
The premise was simple: take a group of people, divide them into Prisoners and Wardens and see what happens. Scheduled to last for 2 weeks, the experiment was cut short after just 6 days…
The BBC has put a good ‘looking back’ write-up to the experiment here
