Philip Zimbardo

This is a story of how the lips of America became sealed. How we stood by and let our minds be censored. How countless lives were lost in the name of comfort and correctness. This is how we killed fourteen people in San Bernardino, CA on December 2nd, 2015 without saying a single word.

Esta película está basada en una historia real que tuvo lugar en 1971, cuando el profesor de Stanford Dr. Philip Zimbardo creó lo que se convirtió en uno de los experimentos sociales más impactantes y famosos de todos los tiempos: en unos días fue capaz de convertir a un grupo de ciudadanos de clase media en gente sádica por un lado y víctimas sumisas por otro.

Comparado con las chicas, los estudios muestran que los chicos en EEUU son más propensos a ser diagnosticados con algún desorden de comportamiento, a consumir medicamentos estimulantes prescritos, a dejar el colegio, al alcoholismo, a cometer un crimen violento y/o a quitarse sus vidas. El nuevo film documental de Jennifer Siebel Newsom, The Mask You Live In ("La máscara en la que vives"), nos pregunta: como sociedad, ¿cómo estamos fallando a nuestros chicos?

An intensive psychological test by Professor Philip Zimbardo in 1971 saw US students volunteer to play prisoners and guards in an bid to examine the nature of good and evil. Within five days, four prisoners had broken down and another was on hunger strike. This film, containing strong language, reveals why the test was abandoned after less than a week.

In the summer of 1971, Philip Zimbardo, Craig Haney, and Curtis Banks carried out a psychological experiment to test a simple question. What happens when you put good people in an evil place-does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? To explore this question, college student volunteers were pretested and randomly assigned to play the role of prisoner or guard in a simulated prison at Stanford University. Although the students were mentally healthy and knew they were taking part in an experiment, some guards soon because sadistic and the prisoners showed signs of acute stress and depression. After only six days, the planned two-week study spun out of control and had to be ended to prevent further abuse of the prisoners. This dramatic demonstration of the power of social situations is relevant to many institutional settings, such as the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq.

The Stanford prison experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances of prison life, and the effects of imposed social roles on behaviour. It was conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University.

The Stanford prison experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances of prison life, and the effects of imposed social roles on behaviour. It was conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University.

The Stanford prison experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances of prison life, and the effects of imposed social roles on behaviour. It was conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University.