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      9 days ago

      Ah yes, very interesting results when the “experiment” was rigged:

      The participants in the experiment, who were male college students, didn’t just organically become abusive guards, reporter Ben Blum wrote in Medium. Rather, Philip Zimbardo, who led the experiment and is now a professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University, encouraged the guards to act “tough,” according to newfound audio from the Stanford archive.

      https://www.livescience.com/62832-stanford-prison-experiment-flawed.html