This experiment violates the human rights of the experimental subjects. The violation of privacy and speech rights, the insult to personality, and the destruction of basic physical and mental health are so blatant that I can't believe the cold blood of the experiment organizer. . The root of all this is precisely the non-intervention of the experimental development process. Because there is an extreme "prison guard" who violates the previously agreed rules very much - no physical harm to "mortals" is allowed, and the boundary conditions of this experiment are not constrained, so there is no reason to talk about the credibility of the results. degree. The conclusion or original intention of the experiment is to prove that people are easily influenced by the environment to do evil. But in my opinion, the influence weight of the characters in the experiment has been much higher than the environment itself. One fact is that the extreme behavior of the perverted "prison guard" accelerated the evolution of the experiment. Professor Zimbardo's assistants have long seen this, but he still insisted on going his own way and eventually caused the experiment to get out of control and irreversible.
If one part of the group in the environment is absolutely allowed to have absolute authority over another part of the group without restriction, then even if the environment simulated by the experiment is not a prison, I believe that the potential evil in human nature will be released. Doing good has a cost, and this cost is usually expressed in money, time, and energy; correspondingly, doing evil also has a price, which is money, freedom, or physical punishment. If only the cost of doing evil is eliminated without changing the inherent attributes of doing good, then the evil side of human nature will of course crush the good side.
The German movie "The Wave" is also an experiment of group behavior (I don't know if it actually happened in reality), and it is also similar to the Stanford Prison Experiment, that is, the "white shirt + blue jeans" classmates naturally formed a The group, the group's behavior of occupying the school's resources and infringing the rights and interests of other students in order to protect its own interests, was also condoned by the teacher, and it evolved into a group behavior out of control. Therefore, whether it is a school or a prison, whether it is an early warning prisoner or a teacher and a student, in my opinion, it is just an experimental site and an experimental object, and there is no difference. If the balance of the balance of rules is guaranteed—that is, the law recognized by civilized society, under this basic bottom line, the influence of the environment and the role played in the environment on human nature will be manifested, then this experiment can be regarded as credible .
In this experiment, Professor Zimbardo and his assistants were also inspired to "evil", which is to watch, indulge and even encourage inhuman phenomena. Not only did the two groups of subjects in the experiment have an imbalance of rules, but also the experimental subjects and the experiment organizer were absolutely obedient to the experiment organizer because of the employment relationship. This is also an imbalance of rules. Within the organizer, the professor also has an absolute authority over the assistants—another imbalance of rules. Therefore, if all the elements involved in this experiment are subject to necessary constraints, the direction and conclusion of the experiment will be very different. From this point of view, everyone in the experiment participated in the experiment, and their performance was consistent.
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