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 Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:44 am Post subject: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Gh |
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TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib
The whole article is quite interesting - excerpt below.
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Psychologist Philip Zimbardo has seen good people turn evil, and he thinks he knows why.
...Zimbardo conducted a now-famous experiment at Stanford University in 1971, involving students who posed as prisoners and guards. Five days into the experiment, Zimbardo halted the study when the student guards began abusing the prisoners, forcing them to strip naked and simulate sex acts. |
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