Intro to Summary of The Stanford Prision Experiment

In August 1971, Psychology Professor Phillip Zimbardo conducted an experiment on a group of college students. The experiment was designed to see how certain circumstances can distort any individual's personality. He wanted to see how the guards and prisioners would act and how they would change the way they reacted because the situations they were put in. He created a real prision enviroment in order to transform the participants. He set these people in a controlled enviroment an...