SPE Sac- Ethical Beneficience

Question 1

What were the positive outcomes of the Stanford prison experiment?

Answer 1

• showed world how situations can modify people’s behaviour
• shows how people can become quickly engulfed in roles
• brought safer rules to how you conduct studies
• now have outline on how to avoid development of violent behaviour

Question 2

How do the benefits outweigh the harm?

Answer 2

They don’t because a number of participants suffered psychological damage as a result of the experiment which was not present prior