Soiunds great but surely they won't make it as bad as the experiment. You know the Lab Rat task? That was from a famous experiment. This task sounds like the Stanford Prison Experiment, but I am sure it won't be like that. That experiment was basically putting good people in a bad environment, told to follow rules and given things to change their behaviour and make them go through abuse, I very much double BB would do that
But that's what I thought when I heard about this.
Here's what happened:
- ZImbardo took a group of males to take part in the study which was supposed to look at life in prison.
- the participants were then divided into two groups those being "prisoners" and "guards". (they tried to stimulate a mock prison, even to the extent where the prisoners were arrested from their homes, stripped searched etc.)
- Prisoners and gurads were given uniforms etc. and were told to take on their "roles" i.e. prisoners and guards
- SHortly the guards seemed to abuse their power, giving the prisoners a number instead of a name, punsihing them by removing their matresses or locking them in a cupboard with no light etc.
The experiment was supposed to last 2 weeks but due to the extreme distress from the prisoners the experimented had to be cancelled early