Episode 55: One Year Anniversary!

It’s our ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY — and we’re marking it with one of the most infamous studies in psychology: The Stanford Prison Experiment.

What began in 1971 as a two-week simulation of prison life inside a Stanford basement spiraled into chaos in just a few days. Ordinary college students were randomly assigned to be “guards” or “prisoners” — and very quickly, power, control, and cruelty took over. What happened next would shock the researchers, traumatize the participants, and forever change how we think about authority, obedience, and human behavior.

In this episode, we walk through how the experiment was set up, the key players involved, the chilling breakdown that followed, and why this study remains so controversial today. Was this groundbreaking psychology… or an unethical disaster that went way too far?