Week 2 Discussion
The Stanford Prison Experiment is considered to be quite controversial. On the one hand, there seem to be several ethically questionable aspects to the experiment; on the other hand, the experiment exposed some extraordinary results in the field of psychology.
What are the ethical considerations that should have been considered in this study? Were the results of the experiment worth possibly compromising its ethics? What would you have done differently? Does the information in the 2018 article change your thinking about the Stanford Prison Experiment?