"Suppose you only had normally healthy children, psychologically and physically, and they knew they would end up in a prison-like environment and that some of their civil rights would be sacrificed. Those good people, put in that bad, evil place: would their goodness triumph?" questioned Phillip Zimbardo (1). In 1971, Zimbardo transformed part of the basement of Stanford University's psychology building to answer this very question. This became known as the Zimbardo experiment. The Zimbardo experiment shows the behavioral changes people undergo as they face the cruel reality of being incarcerated or having rules enforced. The experiment began after 75 people responded to a newspaper ad seeking “male volunteers to participate in a psychological study of prison life” in exchange for $15 a day. From the list, Zimbardo narrowed it down to 24 people who appeared to be "the most stable, the most mature, and the least involved in antisocial behavior." From his careful selection, he assigned half of his subjects to the role of guards and the other half to prisoners and placed them...