Submission + - The Stanford prisoner experiment - 40 years on (stanfordalumni.org) 1

Submitted by cheros on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @07:02AM

cheros writes: It's now 40 years ago that the Stanford prisoner experiment went ugly so quickly it had to be aborted. Stanford has an interesting piece called The Menace Within that looks back on this momentous psychological experiment.

I think we can still learn from this — plenty of live examples around..

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by Minion of Eris ( 1574569 ) writes:

Before they opened GITMO, or Abu Grhaib.

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