The Stanford Prison Experiment

BBC documentary on the Stanford Prison Experiment. If you don't know what the experiment is. In 1971 psychologist Philip Zimbardo wanted to see how people would respond in social extremes. Students would be chosen. On a coin flip, some would become guards others would be prisoners in a simulated Prison created on the school's campus.



The experiment is an insight that Authority and environment has a very strong effect on one's behavior. how people will take on and become the roles they are presented or told they are to be in an environment.
It reminds me of the experiment where they take brown and blue-eyed children for an experiment. They tell the blue-eyed children they are less than children with brown eyes. And tell the brown-eyed children they are less than children with blue eyes. If one's society says, acts or treats one in a certain way, treats one without dignity then soon negative and destructive behavior will happen.