The Stanford Prison Experiment
By: Addison Wylie The Stanford Prison Experiment is fascinating as it is disturbing. It’s too bad such an inhumane procedure had to take place in real life in order for us to receive this excellent and provocative dramatization. Stanford’s Dr. Philip Zimbardo took a leap of faith when designing an experiment which positioned 18 young men as guards and prisoners in a makeshift jail located in the basement of the university’s Jordan Hall. The two-week long…