Why did Philip Zimbardo conduct his experiments?
Philip Zimbardo conducted the experiment in order to have a better understanding the effects of putting good people in a bad place such as prison cells. -quote- “My recent book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, describes the radical transformations that took place among college students playing randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison created at Stanford University. In 1971, I wanted to understand better what happens when you put good people in a bad place, like prison.
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