The Stanford prison experiment was a role-play and simulation conducted at Stanford University in 1971 examining the impact of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment intended to examine...

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Extracted text: The Stanford prison experiment was a role-play and simulation conducted at Stanford University in 1971 examining the impact of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment intended to examine the effects of situational variables on participants' reactions and behaviors over 2 weeks in a simulated prison in the basement of the Stanford University Psychology department. Subjects were assigned to either prisoner or prison guard status by a coin flip. Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo led the research team who conducted the experiment and attempted to assess the below research hypothesis: Assignment to "guard" or "prisoner" status has an adverse impact on reactions on behavioral measures of interaction, emotional measures of mood state and pathology, attitudes toward self, as well as other indices of coping and adaptation to this novel situation. Status is the independent variable with two levels: "guard" or "prisoner." The dependent variables are: (1) interaction behaviours; (2) mood state; (3) mood pathology: (4) self-image; and finally, (5) degree of coping and adaptation. The corresponding null hypothesis is Oa. Assignment to "guard" or "prisoner" status has a negative impact on reactions on behavioral measures of interaction, emotional measures of mood state and pathology, attitudes toward self, as well as other indices of coping and adaptation to this novel situation. Ob. Assignment to "guard" or "prisoner" status has a positive impact on reactions on behavioral measures of interaction, emotional measures of mood state and pathology, attitudes toward self, as well as other indices of coping and adaptation to this novel situation. OC Assignment to "guard" or "prisoner" status has'no impact on reactions on behavioral measures of interaction, emotional measures of mood state and pathology, attitudes toward self, as well as other indices of coping and adaptation to this novel situation. Od None of the above