The Stanford Prison Experiment
On the basis of research on the Stanford Prison Experiment, share your response to the following questions:
• What is the Stanford Prison Experiment? Describe it.
• Would people expect such an experiment to be allowed to proceed today? Why or why not?
• How would people proceed, if were to create an experiment that seeks to test the same hypothesis as for the Stanford Prison Experiment?
• What changes would a person make in order to protect the safety of the participants?
• Were the researchers able to learn anything despite being forced to abandon the experiment early?
• Do you agree that there were ethical problems with the study or are critics making too much of it? Analyze the situation and support it with rationale.
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