The Stanford Experiment
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- ROLE SELECTION
- Flip this coin. If it’s heads, you’re a guard, if it’s tails, you’re a prisoner.
- ARREST OF PRISONERS
- Surprise! You’re under arrest!
- DAY 1
- Zimbardo put them into pairs and asked them to flip a coin in order to randomly assign the roles of guard and prisoner fairly.
- Day 3
- He asked local law enforcement to make the mock arrests, without the participants knowing, to make the situation more realistic.
- Day 5
- They were strip searched and delouses. They had to wear a uniform that barely covered them, a stocking cap and an ankle chain. They could only refer to each other by numbers.
- Day 6
- The guards became more brutal, refusing to let prisoners leave cells. One prisoner showed signs of anxiety but wasn’t allowed to leave until day 4.
- Please let me out!
- The guards made prisoners clean toilets with their bare hands. At night when guards thought prisoners weren’t looking they sexually humiliated prisoners.
- Their power was almost total and prisoners obeyed without question. A visiting post graduate objected strongly and convinced researchers to stop the study.
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