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The Stanford Prisoner Experiment - 40 Years On

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-good-to-be-a-guard dept.

cheros writes "It's now 40 years ago that the Stanford prisoner experiment went ugly so quickly it had to be aborted. Stanford has an interesting piece called The Menace Within that looks back on this momentous psychological experiment. From the article: 'What happened in the basement of the psych building 40 years ago shocked the world. How do the guards, prisoners and researchers in the Stanford Prison Experiment feel about it now?'"

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  1. Re:Guantanamo Bay by SuperKendall · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Now imagine if the guards were told the prisoners were evil terrorists.

    And then what if they were?

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