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How the Stanford Prison Experiment Worked

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The Prisoner Riot

Zimbardo actually acted as the superintendent of the prison, involved himself in his own experiment. He had one of them, he had some graduate assistants that were assisting in the program. They acted as a parole board and one of them was the Warden. So yeah, like you said, it escalated pretty quickly after kind of laughing at first.

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