Philip Zimbardo, “Critical Situations” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in the History of Science
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What Do You Say in the Stamford Prison Experiment?
This was a person thats had no pathologiestat they might be supernormal. He gave into the power of the situation once somebody started saying, let's take pictures. Once they saw it doing it, then they lost all sense of humanity. That is, the prisoners that they were humiliating, degrading, were simply objects of enjoyment. None of the guards on the day shift did any anything, thing negative at all. On the night shift, there was not a single senior officer in three months ever went down there. Why didn't they go down? Because when the insurgency broke out, an american fbi, American c i, a military techaney, bush, rumsfell
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