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How to Create a Feeling of Powerlessness in Prisoners
Zimbado's instructions were quite clear. He says, it would need to create a sense of frust on we can create fear in them. They're going to be wearing uniforms, and at no point will anybody call them by their namesthey will be given numbers and called only by their numbers. In general, what all this should do is create asense of powerless so that's a pretty strong briefing. I don't think thethave been left to their own devices at all. And they didn't come up with these on their own, accord. It was all up to zimbardo, these ideas. So if you can work out that the point of this experiment is
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