The Stanford Prison Experiment 2024 Repartore. Zimbardo died last month at 91, but his controversial legacy continues to resonate some 50 years later with the stanford prison experiment: To study people’s roles in prison situations, zimbardo converted a basement of the stanford university psychology building into a mock prison.

The problem, as director juliette eisner demonstrates in her riveting nat geo documentary series the stanford prison experiment: A groundbreaking look at one of history’s most notorious psychology studies through the firsthand accounts of the original prisoners and guards, many of whom are.