I am tired of hearing about this study when there are so many valid criticisms of its methods and conclusions, and it has never been replicated. In particular (as this article highlights) there's strong evidence that Zimbardo explicitly coached the "guards" into treating the "prisoners" harshly, as opposed to the meme narrative that everybody fell hard into their roles organically.
Ignoring the ethical questions (which are many), this is just straight up asking experimental subjects to help you reach a conclusion, which is . . . a no-no, experimentally speaking.
Ignoring the ethical questions (which are many), this is just straight up asking experimental subjects to help you reach a conclusion, which is . . . a no-no, experimentally speaking.
The Wikipedia page has a pretty good overview of this and other issues: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment