"Suppose you only had children who were normally healthy, psychologically and physically, and they knew that they would be going to a prison-like environment and that some of their rights "If good people were sacrificed, placed in this bad place, would their goodness triumph?" asks Phillip Zimbardo (1). from Stanford to precisely answer this question This is what has become known as the Zimbardo Experiment The Zimbardo Experiment shows the changes in behavior that people experience when confronted with the cruel reality of being. imprisoned or enforce rules The experiment began after 75 people responded to a newspaper ad seeking "male volunteers to participate in a psychological study of prison life" in exchange. for $15 per day. Zimbardo narrowed the list down to 24 people who appeared to be "the most stable, most mature and least involved in antisocial behavior." Following his careful selection, he assigned half of his subjects to the role of guards and the other half to those of prisoners and placed them...