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The Stanford Prison tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about the Stanford Prison Experiment, a psychological study conducted by Philip Zimbardo. The content compares this experiment to Stanley Milgram's obedience test, highlighting how participants in the Stanford Prison Experiment, assigned as guards, quickly began brutalizing prisoners despite knowing they could have been randomly assigned to that role. The tag is used in threads exploring human behavior, authority, and ethical boundaries in psychological research.
  1. Mike

    VIDEO Stanford Prison Experiment

    The Stanford Prison experiment by Zimbardo matches only the breakthrough of the Milgram obedience test. In Milgram's test, humans were led to giving a fake patient a fatal electric shock. The shock wasn't real, so the people involved in the study thought they were doing it. Only around 10-15%...
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