The first thing I truly found interesting was how quickly the experiment went from zero to one hundred. Even Dr Phillips Zimbardo said in the beginning of the video that he was not expecting to get any results or at least was hoping to get boring results. He felt that no prisoners were gonna comply with the guards and the guards would not be so inhumane that they would subdue the prisoners with violence. He was quite wrong. What was a model of an experiment of a prison turned into a real prison real quick. The guards were supposed to be making small pokes at the prisoners but the scientist never predict they would strip down the prisoners and poke “fun at their genitals” and wake them up at the middle of the night to “clean toilets with bare hands”. The kids who portrayed cops went from not knowing anything about abusive legal authorities to almost mastering them overnight. Even the scientist himself turned into a part of the experiment and claimed he forgot his position as a scientist and become more involved in subduing the prisoners than conducting the experiment itself.
The Second aspect I found to be extremely interesting is that the science talks about how malleable the mid of a young person is. Anything can change their minds. Prisoner 819 was a prison in the experiment and he wanted to leave the jail. The instructor had allowed that. He has let him go and have his way of becoming free from the prison. But When he heard his friends in the prison saying that “819 did a bad thing” while he was about to be freed. He instantly changed his position and cried to be back in the jail. He felt bad for leaving his friends but he also wanted to leave. He was conflicted and unsure and very mailable and i feel like that’s how a lot of young people are. Therefore this makes the aspect of mailability very interesting in the experiment.
