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What was the Stanford Experiment?
The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) was a social psychology experiment that attempted to investigate the psychological effects of perceived power, focusing on the struggle between prisoners and prison officers.
What did the Stanford Experiment show?
Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment revealed how social roles can influence our behavior. ... The Stanford Prison Experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances of prison life.
Tell me about the author of the Stanford Experiment.
It was conducted at Stanford University on the days of August 14–20, 1971, by a research group led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo using college students. In the study, volunteers were randomly assigned to be either guards or prisoners in a mock prison, with Zimbardo himself serving as the superintendent.
Was the Stanford Experiment ethical?
The study has received many ethical criticisms, including lack of fully informed consent by participants as Zimbardo himself did not know what would happen in the experiment (it was unpredictable). Also, the prisoners did not consent to being 'arrested' at home.
What are other similar experiments to the Stanford Experiment?
The Monster Study was conducted on twenty two orphaned children living at a veteran's orphanage. It was to establish a hypothesis regarding the origins of stuttering. Johnson was trying to induce stuttering into the speech of healthy children.
What happened in the Milgram experiment?
He conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Milgram (1963) examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II, Nuremberg War Criminal trials.

Question: Why was it important
Self-contained rewrite: Why was the Milgram experiment important?