How to turn children into Natzi's in a week

Alex · 08-31-2008, 11:00 AM

Yeah, it is pretty well established that if you grant people institutional approval to be dicks, a lot of people will be dicks.

Stan4dSteph · 08-31-2008, 11:35 AM

Makes me think of the Stanford Prison Experiment.

Betty · 08-31-2008, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph

Makes me think of the Stanford Prison Experiment.

Another interesting read. It fascinates me just how quickly these transformations happened - in a matter of mere days.

I would like to think that most people are inherintly good - but perhaps we just try very hard to be like we think everyone around us is. (not the way they may actually be - but the way the appear to us to be.)

The elevator experiment seemed to point to that. There were some other things that popped up in You Tube as related I'll have to check out.

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