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Philip Zimbardo - A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment (1971) In 1971 Philip Zimbardo, a professor of social psychology at Stanford University, conducted a remarkable experiment. The Subjects used were 21 healthy male undergraduate volunteers. Each person was to receive $15 a day for 2 weeks. Nine of the students were randomly selected to be "prisoners," while the rest were divided into three shifts of "guards," who worked around the clock. Some subjects were designated as "prisoners" with a flip of a coin and the rest served as "guards." Within a brief time, the "guards" and "prisoners" became totally absorbed in their respective roles. As the guards grew more aggressive, the prisoners became passive and apathetic. Prisoners are violent because of the type of people they are: antisocial criminals who have little regard for other people. Guards are brutal because only brutal people are attracted to such an occupation in the...

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