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the prisoners were kept in their cells and the guards would take shifts, for two weeks the prisoners were belittled, tormented an yelled at by the guards as it would be in a prison they had rules and punishments while all of this was going on the team of psychologist was in a room watching film of all of this

the only rule was nobody was to be physically touched (although this was violated )

for two weeks the prisoners received terrible food and were locked in their cells while their peers were in charge of them they also got minimal time in the yard along with a "punishment closet" for bad behavior or rebellion

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VOLUNTEERS

What suspects had done was to answer a local newspaper ad calling for volunteers in a study of the psychological effects of prison life. We wanted to see what the psychological effects were of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. To do this, we decided to set up a simulated prison and then carefully note the effects of this institution on the behavior of all those within its walls.

More than 70 applicants answered our ad and were given diagnostic interviews and personality tests to eliminate candidates with psychological problems, medical disabilities, or a history of crime or drug abuse. Ultimately, we were left with a sample of 24 college students from the U.S. and Canada who happened to be in the Stanford area and wanted to earn $15/day by participating in a study. On all dimensions that we were able to test or observe, they reacted normally.

Our study of prison life began, then, with an average group of healthy, intelligent, middle-class males. These boys were arbitrarily divided into two groups by a flip of the coin. Half were randomly assigned to be guards, the other to be prisoners. It is important to remember that at the beginning of our experiment there were no differences between boys assigned to be a prisoner and boys assigned to be a guard.

To help us closely simulate a prison environment, we called upon the services of experienced consultants. Foremost among them was a former prisoner who had served nearly seventeen years behind bars. This consultant made us aware of what it was like to be a prisoner. He also introduced us to a number of other ex-convicts and correctional personnel during an earlier Stanford summer school class we co-taught on "The Psychology of Imprisonment."

Our prison was constructed by boarding up each end of a corridor in the basement of Stanford's Psychology Department building. That corridor was "The Yard" and was the only outside place where prisoners were allowed to walk, eat, or exercise, except to go to the toilet down the hallway (which prisoners did blindfolded so as not to know the way out of the prison).

To create prison cells, we took the doors off some laboratory rooms and replaced them with specially made doors with steel bars and cell numbers.

With these features in place, our jail was ready to receive its first prisoners, who were waiting in the detention cells of the Palo Alto Police Department.

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2. Setting Up - Stanford Prison Experiment

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What suspects had done was to answer a local newspaper ad calling for volunteers in a study of the psychological effects of prison life. We wanted to see what the psychological effects were of becoming a prisoner or prison guard.

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randomly they selected half of the men to be prisoners and half of the men to be guards at the beginning they told the guards they were chosen to be guards to be special this was just the icing on the cake when it came to the guards feeling as if they had some special authority even though this was all fake

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the prison was setup using old classrooms on campus, they built cells and designed it to look as much like a prison as they could they even had someone on their team of psychologist who had been to prison before the used the classrooms as cells in the basement and the men were actually on the campus of the school they attended everyday

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Imagine you are a broke college student and you read in the news paper that if you participate in this study you will receive 15 dollars a day that's about 75 dollars today

to insure informed consent the participants were informed about the nature of the study

then after filling out anyone with a criminal background or any ongoing medical and mental health issues they had 24 average college students completely random volunteers