Twilight of the Stanford Prison Experiment
6 min readDec 11, 2019
The infamous experiment was even more deeply flawed than previously suspected.
The infamous Stanford Prison experiment (SPE), conducted in 1971-in which Philip Zimbardo recruited young men to become either “prisoners” or “guards” in a mock prison, with disastrous results-has long drawn criticism for its sloppy methodology and the exaggerated conclusions about the psychology of evil that Zimbardo drew from it.