91: The Stanford Prison Experiment - No One Said Go For The EGOT, Okay?
What happens when you bring a number of bushy and bright-eyed college students to play guards and inmates for the awesome pay of $15 a day? We find out within the confines of Jordan Hall at Stanford University: a prestigious research institute that may like to remove this event from its history. During this morally questionable 1971 prison experiment, we see how situational variables may have transformed the researcher and participants into monstersā¦ or maybe some were monsters all along?
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What happens when you bring a number of bushy and bright-eyed college students to play guards and inmates for the awesome pay of $15 a day? We find out within the confines of Jordan Hall at Stanford University: a prestigious research institute that may like to remove this event from its history. During this morally questionable 1971 prison experiment, we see how situational variables may have transformed the researcher and participants into monstersā¦ or maybe some were monsters all along? ...