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by tshirthoodie 919 days ago
And yet he did not use any of those opportunities to correct the most common perception of his work.

How is that supposed to be convincing?

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What is the most common perception? I understand it as Zimbardo describes, maybe because I watched "Das Experiment".
That if you do nothing more than divide people into two groups—prisoners and prison guards—and nothing else (no instructions), the prison guards end up on their own accord abusing the prisoners so badly that the experiment needs to be prematurely ended.