Buried in History #007.2: Stanford Prison Experiment Pt. 2

Coffins & Confessions · Sep 25, 2026 · 21m

In 1971, the Stanford Prison Experiment began as a two-week study designed to explore what happens when ordinary people are placed into the roles of prisoners and guards. Within just six days, the experiment was brought to an end. But the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment didn’t end when the participants left the basement of Stanford’s psychology building.

In Part 2 of our Stanford Prison Experiment series, Dae and Spencer continue digging into what happened after the experiment ended, how the study became one of the most famous experiments in psychology, and how its findings were…