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How the Stanford Prison Experiment Worked

Stuff You Should Know

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How to Make a Prisoner Co-Experimenter?

The experiment was supposed to be guards and prisoners. When you coach the guards, they're co-experimenters now. That's problem one with the methodology. And then Zim, Zimboni himself was the superintendent. Was he that bad at doing his job? How did he not know, wait a minute, this will take the experiment?"

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