Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo
The area of social psychology is very broad with many experiments. One famous experiment is the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo.
View the video trailer( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKW_MzREPp4)for the Stanford Prison Experiment documentary
Finally, go to the slide show (http://www.prisonexp.org/the-story )on the Stanford Prison Experiment .
After going through the slides (it is somewhat lengthy):
- Please go to: http://www.prisonexp.org/discussion-questions and select a discussion question to answer. Please try to answer a question that is different from your classmates.Also, please answer the following two questions:
- What are some of the ethical implications of the study?
- What are your thoughts about whether or not this study should have been conducted?
