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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. I read title as "Slashdot Prisoner Experiment" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And it all started to make sense.

  2. I thought it was expanded.... by syousef · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought it was expanded to most modern IT departments ;-)

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  3. Re:Guantanamo Bay by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now imagine that this experiment was being conducted within the setting of a discussion group.

    And imagine that some of us were given mod points and others not.

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