The Stanford Prison Experiment, a controversial psychology study, aimed to understand the nature of good and evil. Professor Philip Zimbardo recruited students to play prisoners or guards in a makeshift jail, but the experiment had to be terminated after just six days due to extreme behavior from both prisoners and guards.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
In 1971, Professor Philip Zimbardo led a groundbreaking psychological study, the Stanford Prison Experiment, which revealed the darker aspects of human behavior, including prisoner mistreatment, violent uprisings, and police brutality.
