how the Stanford Prison Experiment turned regular people into cruel tyrants

how the Stanford Prison Experiment turned regular people into cruel tyrants

In 1971, psychology professor Philip Zimbardo held a research study where 24 volunteers were assigned to be either guards or prisoners in a fabricated prison in the basement of a Stanford University building. Almost immediately, the "guards" used a range of tactics to induce compliance, including solitary confinement, mental abuse, and getting the prisoners to gang up on one another.