Unbeleivable!

I had watched a German movie called 'Das Expertiment' about a prison-simulation experiment for two weeks advertised in a newspaper.

I just realized today that similar kind of experiment was carried out when the guy who conducted the experiment was interviewed on The Daily show.The experiment is famously known as the Stanford prison experiment.Here's a brief description :

The Stanford prison experiment was a 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. Undergraduate volunteers played the roles of guards and prisoners living in a mock prison that was constructed in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.

It is so insane and the conclusions are so arbitrary which claims all good people can turn evil.If given a chance I would never hit a guy even if I wouldn't have to face any punishment and I am pretty sure there are a lot of people like me.Here's an article written by one of the 'consultants' of the experiment.It goes like :

Prof. Philip Zimbardo this "landmark" experiment is a classical treatise on the "power of the situation" and a full-blown explanation of the evils of every prison from Folsom to Abu Ghraib. I can assure you, it is neither. I say this not because I am an African American ex-con who served 17 years in San Quentin for attempted murder or one who spoke before Congress on the issue of prison reform. I say it because I was the Stanford Prison Experiment's chief consultant. I armed the Zimbardo, Craig Haney and Curt Banks with the ideas that enabled them to infuse this study with the verisimilitude that it hangs its hat on to this day. And shouldn't.

A hollywood movie is going to come out in 2008 about the experiment.

There are lot of crazy things going on around us!