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Khan Academy: Zimbardo Prison Study the Stanford Prison Experiment

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This video [7:02] focuses on the Stanford Prison Experiment, a social psychology study in which college students became prisoners or guards in a simulated prison environment. However, mistreatment of prisoners escalated so alarmingly that principal investigator Philip G. Zimbardo terminated the experiment after only six days.

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)