JOSH MABUS — Everyday Designers and the Stanford Prison Experiment

By Josh Mabus, Mississippi Business Journal, Feature Article, June 9, 2016. In 1971, Stanford University psychology professors recruited 24 college-age men for an experimental study in how certain archetypes affect human behavior.

The study was slated to take two weeks, and each participant received $15 per day.

The groups were split into two specific roles: guards and prisoners.

On August 14, 1971, the guards drove to the prisoners’ homes and arrested them. The guards took the prisoners back to Stanford’s psychology building, where the experiment team converted the basement into a prison.

The experiment began uneventfully.

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