A photograph depicts the abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war by their American captors in Abu Ghraib prison during the second Iraq war. The image shows a person standing on a box with their arms held out, enshrouded in shawl-like attire and wearing a full hood that completely covers their face.

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The Stanford Prison Experiment is often compared to the abuse of prisoners of war by U.S. Army and CIA personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraq War. In 2003 and 2004, these personnel committed offenses against prisoners that were documented in photographs, some of which were taken by the abusers themselves. Philip Zimbardo, the lead researcher of the Stanford experiment, has also publicly discussed these parallels, for instance, in an NPR interview.

Comparison of the Stanford Prison Experiment to the Abu Ghraib Prison Abuse

Spielman, R. M., Jenkins, W. J., & Lovett, M. D. (2020, April 22). Psychology (2nd ed.). OpenStax. https://openstax.org/books/psychology-2e/pages/1-introduction

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