The Stanford Prison Experiment is the most notorious psychological experiment in the last century. The experiment was originally initiated by a psychology professor named Philip. Participated in the experiment were 24 young college students who were very healthy in all aspects of physical and psychological aspects. The experiment site is located in a basement at Stanford University in the United States. Professor Philip wanted to test the impact of the environment on a person, so he transformed the basement into a prison.
, and 24 volunteers were divided into three groups, with 9 playing prisoners, 9 playing prisoners, and 6 acting as recorders and substitutes who assisted in completing the experiment. After successfully completing the experiment, each of these college students was paid $100. The 24 college students were very enthusiastic about the experiment and quickly signed a disclaimer. In order to get the volunteers who play prisoners to quickly enter the role, Professor Philip also arranged for people to pretend to be policemen and take the volunteers away from their homes in full arms.
They were taken into the basement that had been transformed into a prison and replaced with prison uniforms and shackles. At the beginning, these volunteers were unable to adapt to their roles quickly, and they were still talking and laughing. So the volunteers who played the jailer came on stage, and they divided each of the three prisoners into a compartment, not allowing them to talk to each other casually. The prison guards also have one shift for every three people, divided into three shifts a day, each group is on duty for 8 hours.
At the request of Professor Philip, the jailers implemented high-pressure management of these fake prisoners. The prisoners would be awakened by the sirens in the middle of the night, and then they would run to the corridor to gather immediately after the whistle of the prison guards ended. The last prisoner who did not react or went to the corridor would be asked to do push-ups as corporal punishment. The day after the experiment began, prisoners began to want to resist the prison guards. They were unwilling to obey the whistle of the prison guards and even did not come out of the cell.
So nine jailers went into battle together and beat the prisoners up. Several prisoners who led the trouble did not get any food that day. The prisoners who performed well and remained silent were rewarded with a good meal. So in the following days, the prisoners never gathered to cause trouble again, but gradually became obedient to the prisoners.
And the volunteers seemed to have forgotten their true identity and were truly addicted to the role of prisoners and prisoners. A college student who played the prisoner fell seriously ill. Professor Philip told him that he could terminate the experiment and go back to see a doctor first. But other volunteers who played the prisoner said he was pretending to be sick in order to escape from prison. After hearing this, the sick volunteer refused to go home for medical treatment because he wanted to prove that he did not want to escape from prison and was a good prisoner.
Only then did Professor Philip realize that something was wrong with the experiment, and these volunteers were already deeply trapped in their roles and could not extricate themselves. The volunteers who play the jailer began to indulge in the pleasure brought by power. They can do whatever they want on prisoners without any punishment. Professor Philip conducted a psychological test on the volunteers who played the jailer, and they all had a very serious sadistic tendency.
At this time, the experiment only started for one week. In fact, Professor Philip himself is already deeply involved in experiments, and he plays a fair and just judge in the experiments. Even after the experiment was urgently stopped, Professor Philip himself found it difficult to get rid of the role he played and always couldn't help speaking in the judge's accent.
