Stanford Prison Experiment

I believe that the researchers did not initially try to conduct an unethical experiment with the information that they had at the beginning of the experiment, but that it did turn out to be unethical.

In the video of the interview of one of the prisoners, he was clearly able to differentiate between the experiment and real life, now that the experiment was over, but during the experiment, he had a hard time identifying with himself and instead became the character that he was playing. Also, he seemed to have a certain opinion of the prison guard that did not go away after the experiment was over. I think that these things show that he did suffer from psychological harm, which is one indicator of an unethical experiment.

I think that the researchers were justified in calling off the experiment early and that this was the best course of action that they could have followed. I think that if they had allowed the experiment to continue, the abuse of prisoners most likely would have progressed, possibly to the extent that it did at Abu Ghraib.