The Stanford prison experiment has been heralded by many psychologists as a great insight into the human behavior. However, others criticize the experiment on the grounds of ethics. The experiment involved participants, who were volunteer students, and were divided into guards and prisoners, after a mock prison was set up in the basement of Stanford University. The objective of the research experiment, headed by Prof Philip Zimbardo, was in power, a situation on the behavior of a person. In other words, “what happens when you place good people in a bad place? Does humanity win over evil, or does Continue reading...