The Stanford Prisoner Experiment - 40 Years On 175
cheros writes "It's now 40 years ago that the Stanford prisoner experiment went ugly so quickly it had to be aborted. Stanford has an interesting piece called The Menace Within that looks back on this momentous psychological experiment. From the article: 'What happened in the basement of the psych building 40 years ago shocked the world. How do the guards, prisoners and researchers in the Stanford Prison Experiment feel about it now?'"
I read title as "Slashdot Prisoner Experiment" (Score:2, Funny)
And it all started to make sense.
I thought it was expanded.... (Score:4, Funny)
I thought it was expanded to most modern IT departments ;-)
Re:Guantanamo Bay (Score:5, Funny)
Now imagine that this experiment was being conducted within the setting of a discussion group.
And imagine that some of us were given mod points and others not.