What ethical issues are associated with the Zimbardo Prison Study?

What will be an ideal response?


The subjects were humiliated and mentally harmed by the experimentation, Zimbardo played too close a role in the experimentation being both the primary researcher and the warden of the simulated prison, the subjects were made to think they could not leave, participants became carried away with their roles and not stopped when it became detrimental

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