Taking someone’s life is morally incorrect for most, but what if encourage by an authority figure? Would you still stick to your decision or change based on your obedience to the society you are living in? This is one of the different viewpoints that Philip Zimbardo brought into perspective of most, following the Milgram Obedience Study that took place less than a decade earlier. In his most famous experiment, the Stanford Prison Experiment, Zimbardo turned to Stanford University to prove that with enough power given, one could become a brutal and heartless person. Nevertheless, “the experiment was aiming to find out how the social environment influences individuals and how individuals act in castings of particular roles” (McLeod, 2017).
