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How the Stanford Prison Experiment Worked

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What's the Difference Between Truth and Fiction?

Most of the prisoners said that they would give up their money, in fact. They even had one former prisoner, this guy that like was a 15 year. inmate, 15 or 17 year inmate on the board that I guess them, Zimbardo want to call him Zamboni. But I don't know how much of that was dramatized. That's one of the problems with this is, you know, so much of the documentation has been not released over the years. Yeah. And it's very tough to separate truth from fiction, especially when you introduce a Hollywood movie into the whole thing just to drive those nails in the coffin too.

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