Prison Experiments - Sozialpsychologie

Set-up
• Five participants were invited to a hotel and
informed that they would be guards in the study.
• shown prison timetables, informed about duties , roll
calls and their responsibility to ensure institution
runs smoothly.
• asked to draw up the rules and to suggest
punishments
• Told that physical violence would not be tolerated.
• taken to prison in van with blacked out windows