At entry, the college student were stripped of their clothes. Loose fitted stockings were given to give off the illusion of a freshly shaved head. Smocks had been assigned to each prisoner with their numbers located on the front and the back. Zimbardo quickly found that if you take a man’s masculinity away, he reacts by acting differently. He required the prisoner to be put into dresses with no underclothing. Immediately, …show more content…
A further question was to determine the consequence of putting normal people in an evil place such as a prison and see how it affected their personality or their psychological mentality. Not only the posed questions were correct, but the simulation exercise was also conducted realistically to achieve accurate results. Accordingly, the results of the experiment stunned everyone who heard about the results that had been obtained. The university students could not bear the simulated prison life for long and the simulated prison conditions were ended after 6 days only. Originally, the study was planned for 14 days. The long hours of imprisonment revealed that the students had become depressed and or had a dramatic decrease in emotional stability, while the guards had already become very