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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
A glance at the current issue of Greater Good: What makes a hero
In 1971, Philip Zimbardo, now a professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University, conducted an experiment to see if under certain conditions, ordinary people could commit acts that would otherwise be unthinkable. He recruited undergraduates to serve as either guards or prisoners in a simulated jail. The Stanford Prison Experiment, as the...
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