The Stanford Prison Experiment

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• 67   Metascore
• 2015
• 2 hr 2 mins
• Documentary, Drama, Suspense
• R

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In 1971, Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo cast 24 student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behaviour in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days.