10 More Brilliant Social Psychology Studies: Why Smart People Do. July/August 2011 > Features > Stanford Prison Experiment. What happened in the basement of the psych building 40 years ago shocked the world.
How do the guards, prisoners and researchers in the Stanford Prison Experiment feel about it now? It began with an ad in the classifieds. Male college students needed for psychological study of prison life. $15 per day for 1-2 weeks. More than 70 people volunteered to take part in the study, to be conducted in a fake prison housed inside Jordan Hall, on Stanford's Main Quad. The leader of the study was 38-year-old psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. 10 Practical Uses For Psychological Research in Everyday Life. People love to give each other advice.
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