👉 One infamous experiment was the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo in 1971, where a group of college students were made administrators and prisoners for two weeks; many participants exhibited severe psychological distress, and some eventually renounced their roles or left early due to the extreme conditions. Another controversial study was the Milgram obedience experiment, where participants were asked to administer electric shocks to another person who responded as if he suffered from mild electrical burns, revealing the surprising willingness of ordinary people to obey authority figures even when it conflicted with their moral principles.
