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How the Stanford Prison Experiment Worked

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The Prisoner Riot

The prisoners had been arrested by the real Palo Alto police. They weren't told when, but like the real cops came by, arrested each one of them for you know, a variety of crimes. The only rule is there's no physical punishment. We're just here to observe. And they apparently relished this immediately and started finding where the guards' boundaries were. There was actually, I think on day two, the turnover from day one to two, there was a prisoner riot.

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