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The Stanford prison experiment (SPE) was a psychological experiment performed during August 1971.It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment that examined the effects of situational variables on participants' reactions and behaviors.
Stanford Prison Experiment, 1971 Credit - Department of Special Collections & University Archives, Stanford University Libraries. In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford ...
In the 1971 prison study, Zimbardo and a team of graduate students recruited college-aged males to spend two weeks in a mock prison in the basement of a building on the Stanford campus.
Craig Haney is an American social psychologist and a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, noted for his work on the study of capital punishment and the psychological impact of imprisonment and prison isolation since the 1970s. [1] He was a researcher on The Stanford Prison Experiment.
Stanford University announced Friday that Zimbardo died Oct. 14 at his home in San Francisco. A cause of death was not provided. In the 1971 prison study, Zimbardo and a team of graduate students recruited college-aged males to spend two weeks in a mock prison in the basement of a building on the Stanford campus.
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil is a 2007 book which includes professor Philip Zimbardo's first detailed, written account of the events surrounding the 1971 Stanford prison experiment (SPE) – a prison simulation study which had to be discontinued after only six days due to several distressing outcomes and mental breaks of the participants.
Writing 25 years after the Stanford Prison Experiment, he and co-author Craig Haney, a fellow researcher in 1971, were candid about how “shocking and unexpected” the outcome was: transforming ...
In 1971, Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted the Stanford prison experiment in which twenty-four male students were randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. The participants adapted to their roles beyond Zimbardo's expectations with ...