A group of students were split into guards and prisoners in a mock jail. They were stripped of their normal identity and restraint. The guards quickly slid into cruelty. Prisoners broke down. Study aborted within a week.
Funny story, you can’t reproduce this, because it’s unethical, but the few occasions where it has been tried under supervision, none of the behaviors emerged.
Think about that.
All you need to do is put on a uniform, and you change as a person.
Stanford Prison Experiment
A group of students were split into guards and prisoners in a mock jail. They were stripped of their normal identity and restraint. The guards quickly slid into cruelty. Prisoners broke down. Study aborted within a week.
Funny story, you can’t reproduce this, because it’s unethical, but the few occasions where it has been tried under supervision, none of the behaviors emerged.
Think about that.
All you need to do is put on a uniform, and you change as a person.