Abstract This paper analyses four released articles about the Stanford Prison Experiment; presenting an overview of its occurrence. The research presented in this article displays how humans who are deemed clinically sane can be impelled to display sadistic attitudes along with subservient behavior on the other side of the spectrum. By placing average humans in a mock prison, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, Dr. Philip Zimbardo conducted a study leading to the discovery of The Lucifer Effect. Dr Zimbardo conducted his research in effort to identify the cerebral actions and responses involved in characteristic human aggression. This paper analyses how the Stanford Prison Experiment influenced Dr. Zimbardo to theorize The Lucifer Effect. The Lucifer Effect describes the circumstances where a clinically sane individual beings to display pernicious actions in spite of their intrinsic good nature. The Stanford Prison Experiment proves The Lucifer Effect to be evident as the students positioned as guards began to present unrelenting attitudes to the student prisoners yielding docile behaviors. An Analysis of the Stanford Prison Experiment In effort to gain information about the psychological tendencies human nature, Stanford University conducted a human study in the summer of 1971. By placing people deemed ‘most average’ in negative situations, the study questions human behavior and whether the good or evil in one would triumph. Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, Dr. Philip Zimbardo in his research, A Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Stimuated Prison (1973), aimed to create a prison-like situation in which the guards and inmates were initially comparable and characterized as being normal-average, and then to observe the patterns of behavior which resulted, as well as the cognitive, emotional and attitudinal reactions which emerged. (p. 3) Dr. Zimbardo rebukes the proposed hypothesis that prison riots emer