... Zimbardo split participants into two groups; half prisoners who were given rules they had to comply with or they'd be punished. An example was: "Prisoners must always address the guards as "Mr correction officer" and the warden as, " Mr chief correctional officer."(www.prison.org) The rest were guards and all were given uniforms fitting their roles in the experiment. On the day of the experiment, prisoners were unexpectedly arrested, searched, fingerprints taken and taken to the prison. There, they were stripped, given a uniform, number and put into their cells; this was to be their home for two weeks. The guards arrived in their uniforms and told they could make up their own rules for law, order and respect within the prison, they could also make up new ones when they pleased when on their eight-hour shift. Within days of the experiment starting prisoners had become de-individualised robots unable to think. They became confused, ...

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