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Movie review: 'Stanford Prison Experiment' is gripping, claustrophobic

The Stanford Prison Experiment still ranks as one of the world's most controversial psychological experiments even though it took place in 1971. Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo wanted to find out what would happen if ordinary male students were treated as if they were in the penal system. Half were assigned as prisoners, the other half as guards, and a basement block of rooms, unused during summer break, was turned into a makeshift prison.

 

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