Prisoners In The Stanford Prison Experiment 2024 Ford. Stanford university’s alumni magazine has a fascinating article in its july/august issue about the infamous 1971 stanford prison experiment, a psychological study of prison life. About the stanford prison experiment.

Stanford prison experiment, a social psychology study (1971) in which college students became prisoners or guards in a simulated prison environment. The stanford experiment sits at the heart of the book, but my story also tracks backwards as far as the 1930s, and forwards as far as the 2000s, to examine other.