The Case of Laura McDonald

The case has drawn comparisons to a famous experiment conducted in the early 1960s by Yale University social psychologist Stanley Milgram. Participants were asked to administer electric shocks at an ever-increasing voltage to another individual whenever that person answered a question incorrectly. In 1971, Stanford University professor Philip Zimbardo carried out a similar study, which came to be known as the Stanford Prison Experiment. Since mid-2004, there have been no further reports of a self-identified police officer calling fast food restaurants to demand employee strip searches.