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When Things Fall Apart

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The Stanford Prison Experiment

The results of the Stanford Prison Experiment made it into almost all psychology textbooks. It's essential takeaway that given the right context, human beings will be quick to act brutally was often accepted uncritically. The way I see it is that they were just telling a very old story with basically the same message. People deep down are just rotten. We are rotten to the core.

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