People's Behavior and The Affect of Social Situations Sometimes, people's behavior can be affected by different social situations. In the video, two different experiments showed how people act when put into different situations. In the first situation, students took part in a prison experiment. This experiment was called the Philips Embardo Experiments. In this experiment students were taken to a prison, and some were made guards, and the others inmates. The experiment was supposed to last 14 days. It only lasted 6 because of the effect it had on people. In this short period of time