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In 1973, Phillip K. Zimbardo conducted an experiment dealing with obedience. The experiment was conducted within a prison-like setting and was set to last for two weeks. Zimbardo had to end the experiment in just six days because of the drastic outcome presented by the experiment. While many have accepted Zimbardo’s conclusions about the effect an environment plays on the social behaviors of people, they cannot be firmly backed. This is because Zimbardo did not vary the variables, created an unrealistic prison setting, and only conducted the experiment once. To begin, Zimbardo used twenty-one college aged volunteers. These were all m