Participants: 24 male college students (no prison experience, no history of drug abuse, physical and mental health) earn $65,438 +05 a day.
Venue: Investigators built a mock prison in the basement of the psychology department of Stanford University.
Process: Participants were arrested by the police and taken to the test site.
Participants were divided into two groups by drawing lots, 12 prisoners and 12 prison guards.
Experimental content:
197 1 In the summer of, Philip Zimbardo, a professor of psychology at Stanford University, and his colleagues built a mock prison in the basement of the university, and collected 24 volunteers with normal mind and good health, each of whom received a daily reward of 15 dollars, but they had to complete the experiment within 14 days.