On Friday, I published a description of Milgram’s Experiment, which showed that many people will do bad things if ordered to do so by a credible authority figure. In the comments, somebody brought up a film called THE EXPERIMENT, which is actually based on the Stanford Experiment. In this experiment, study participants role played as guards and prisoners. The two-week experiment ended after only six days because the guards became sadistic and the prisoners became severely depressed.
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