The Stanford Prison Experiment seemed to tell us that the regular attitudes and behavior of normal persons could be dramatically altered by the social situations in which they find themselves. Some critics, however, claimed that the experiment’s advertisement had attracted people who were predisposed to authoritarianism. Others accused the experiment’s director of encouraging the guards’ cruelty through his own actions.
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