An overview of the controversial Zimbardo study.

A psychology paper on “Personality”.

Should we or should we not. The advantages and disads.

An opinionated piece on the acceptable practice of obedience and authority. It references several popular psychological experiments by Asch, Milgram, and Zimbardo.

The goal of the Stanford Prison Experiment was to examine the behavior of individuals forced into the roles of prison guard and inmate, as well as answer the age-old question, “Will good triumph over evil, or be consumed by it”?

The incident at Abu Ghraib was a horrible ordeal which can be easily compared to the 1971 Zimbardo Prison Study. In comparing them, it is easy to conclude that any person has the capacity to commit such acts when put in certain societal roles.