Current mood:

distressed

The Stanford Prison Experiment
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Anyone who is even remotely interested in human psychology and/or human rights absolutely NEEDS to read through this website:

The Stanford Prison Experiment:
A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment Conducted at Stanford University

A quick summary: What happens when you take a group of ordinary people, divide the group in half, and assign half of them as Guards and the other half as Prisoners?

It's amazing and shocking what happened over the course of a mere SIX DAYS when this experiment was conducted in 1971. It's really, really disturbing how easily the human mind can be manipulated. (Yet another reason why I typically despise the human race.)

I had read about this experiment before, but this website goes much more into detail. Frightening stuff.

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