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A Critique Of the Stanford Experiment
"The Education of a Torturer" is an account of experiments that has
similar results to that of Milgram's obedience experimentsthat were
performed in 1963. Though both experiments vary drastically, both have one
grim outcome, that is that, "it is ordinary people, not psychopaths, who
become the Eichmanns of history."
The Stanford experiment was performed by psychologists Craig ....
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.... They became
"aggressive and abusive within the prison, insulting and bullying the
prisoners."
After the experiment was finished, many of the mock guards said
that they enjoyed the power. Others said that they had no idea that they
were capable of being so corrupt. The experimenter was shocked at the
results as well saying, "It was degrading....To me, those things are sick.
But they (the prisoners) did everything I said. They abused each other
because I requested ....
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