The Story of the St. Bernard Prison Experiment

i looked at five different text books, kind of at random, and all of them did mention weaknesses in the study. There's basically three components that are central to the way that the experiment is talked about. The first is that all the participants in the standford prison experiment were normal. So this is what zambardo says in his two thousand eight book, the lucifer effect. He says, human nature can be transformed within certain powerful social settings as dramatic as the chemical transformation in the captivating fable of doctor jeckyll and mister hyde. Another thing that we've sort of forgotten now is that in 19 71, when the dy was taking place, there was a