Stanford PrisonExperiment

Our planned two-week investigation into the psychology of prison life had to be ended prematurely after only six days because of what the situation was doing to the college students who participated. In only a few days, our guards became sadistic...

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This explains why the McDonald's rejects hired by the TSA are such total assholes.

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Old news, very old news

Archie

These kinds of experiments have been conducted for decades, and all have this same kind of conclusion. Variation on guard/prisoner have included inferior race/superior race. Over and over, the results are consistent with common sense expectations.

Archie

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