Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Legitimacy of Stanford prison experiment gets questioned
The Stanford prison experiment is one of the most famous psychological studies of all time. It divided a group of students into “prisoners” and “guards,” and put them in a mock prison at Stanford.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe Stanford prison experiment is one of the most famous psychological studies of all time. It divided a group of students into “prisoners” and “guards,” and put them in a mock prison at Stanford. But now, one of the participants says he wasn’t suffering at all -- he was acting.
