Stanford Prison Experiment Overview 2024 Summary. After randomly assigning the boys, the nine deemed prisoners were “arrested” and promptly brought into a makeshift stanford county prison, which was really just the basement of the stanford psychology department building. Good and evil, time perspective, and shyness.
The stanford prison experiment (spe) took place at a time when the sources of authoritarianism and evil were a focal concern in psychology. Does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph?