The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking The Truth
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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This 2024 docuseries takes a closer look at the Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most famous psychology studies in modern history. Many of the study's participants are now speaking about their experiences for the first time and reveal that the experiment was severely flawed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to the psych legal pop podcast. This is a podcast where we talk about |
| 0:08.0 | popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the |
| 0:12.9 | attorney. And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. And today we are going to be discussing |
| 0:18.9 | a 2024 docu series that's on Hulu called the Stanford Prison Experiment, Unlocking the Truth. |
| 0:32.6 | And yes, many of you may have heard of the famous Stanford Prison Experiment. We're going to, I'm going to read a brief synopsis about it. I don't know how brief it is, but a synopsis about it, and then we'll get into the docu-series and what that was about. |
| 0:53.7 | Okay, so the Stanford Prison Experiment, |
| 0:56.4 | also referred to as the Zimbardo Prison Experiment, |
| 1:00.2 | was a controversial psychological experiment |
| 1:02.7 | performed in August 1971 at Stanford University. |
| 1:06.8 | It was designed to be a two-week simulation |
| 1:09.5 | of a prison environment that examined the effects of situational variables on participants' reactions and behaviors. |
| 1:19.4 | Stanford University psychology professor Philip Zimbardo managed the research team who administered the study. |
| 1:26.4 | Zimbardo ended the experiment early after realizing |
| 1:29.4 | the guard participants' abuse of the prisoners had gone too far. Participants were recruited from the local |
| 1:36.0 | community through an advertisement in the newspaper offering $15 per day to male students who wanted to |
| 1:42.7 | participate in a psychological study of prison life. |
| 1:46.5 | 24 participants were chosen after assessments of psychological stability and then assigned |
| 1:52.1 | randomly to the role of prisoners or prison guards. Critics have questioned the validity of these |
| 1:57.9 | methods. Those volunteers selected to be guards were given uniforms |
| 2:02.7 | designed specifically to de-individuate them, and they were instructed to prevent prisoners |
| 2:09.2 | from escaping. The experiment started officially when the prisoners were arrested by real police |
| 2:15.5 | in Palo Alto. During the next five days, psychological |
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