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Zimbardo's Prison study: Do the ends justify the means? Zimbardo believed that his 'prison study' justified the means. According to him, his participants didn't show any long-term negative effects. Over the years he had been constructing a report on his participants to see whether there were any negative effects but discovered that they hadn't been affected. He mentions that the participants led normal lifestyles and didn't have re-occurring memories about the prison experience and in fact had learnt that social influence can have an effect on anyone Throughout the short history of psychology one of the most major transformations that have taken place is in regard to what we believe is ethical or not in the experimentation process. E.g. the study by Milgram about obedience is extremely unethical but its still to this day an important part of research, the same applies to the Prison Study by Zimbardo. You wouldn't be...

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