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The Stanford Prison Experiment 2015

A psychology professor conducts an experiment to simulate a prison environment, recruiting 24 college students as volunteers. Assigned roles as guards and inmates, the participants quickly succumb to the pressures of the situation, with the "guards" exhibiting increasingly authoritarian behavior and the "inmates" displaying distress and submission. The experiment explores the powerful effects of situational forces and the potential for ordinary people to behave in extreme ways when given authority and control.

A psychology professor conducts an experiment to simulate a prison environment, recruiting 24 college students as volunteers. Assigned roles as guards and inmates, the participants quickly succumb to the pressures of the situation, with the "guards" exhibiting increasingly authoritarian behavior and the "inmates" displaying distress and submission. The experiment explores the powerful effects of situational forces and the potential for ordinary people to behave in extreme ways when given authority and control.

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67

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7.7

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84%

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75%

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IMDb

6.8 /10

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TMDB

68

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Letterboxd

3.5

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31st Artios Awards 2016

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Low Budget – Drama

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Chevrolet

1974

Impala

Oldsmobile

1972

Vista Cruiser

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