Dueling 'Experiments'

Movie audiences who long for those carefree days of hands-off institutional review boards will be in for a treat when a film about the 1971 Stanford prison experiment hits the big screen.

Every freshman psychology student is familiar with the legendary obedience study that had to be cut short when a dozen male undergraduates playing the role of prison guards discovered their inner sadists, while their "inmate" peers suffered humiliation. Philip G. Zimbardo, the Stanford psychology

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