The Zimbardo Stanford Prison Experiment (Essay Sample)

Social Experiment: Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment
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Introduction
This paper aims to explain and evaluate social experiments. This paper would be using the Zimbardo experiment to evaluate the social roles. social roles of participants and the specific behaviors of the participants in these roles. This paper will also explain the internal and external consequences of the participants' roles in a contemporary situation. This paper will also compare and contrast the Zimbardo experiment and how the experiment affected the participants of the experiment. The Zimbardo experiment, according to Zimbardo and his coworkers was also know as the Stanford prison Experiment which revealed how individuals will actively and readily conform to any social roles which they are expected to play, most especially when the roles are strongly stereotyped as the roles of the prison guards (McLeod, 2020). The experiment featured an evaluation of the prison guards. The experiment set to find out if the brutally and the harsh treatments reported within the guards in American prisons was due to the prison environment that is situational or due to the sadistic nature and personalities of the guards that is dispositions (Zimbardo et al., 1973 ; McLeod 2020).
The Zimbardo Stanford prison Experiment
The experiment was created to evaluate and examine the effects of the situational variables on the participants behaviors and actions within a prison environment in a time frame of two weeks. The experiment was lead by a Stanford University psychology professor, Phil Zimbardo and along with his research team had created a prison setting and participants of this experiment were gotten through a local community ad which had offered $15 a day to male students who would participate in the "psychological study of prison life."(Bekiempis, 2015). After a careful evaluation of each applicants psychological stability. Each of the applicants were assigned to the roles of being prison guards and prisoners. Although this method was deeply questioned by critics in terms of its validity (Texier, 2019). The participants who had been selected to be guards were given