The Harmful Effects Of The Stanford Prison Experiment

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The Stanford prison study proved to be the harmful of the two experiment. This was a bizzar study involving human beings. Normal human beings after undergoing this experiement became cruel. The studenst participating in the experiement were not educated on the after effects.
Some few days into the study, the students acting as prisoners started to feel the pressure and rebelled inside their prison cells.
With this challenge by prisoners to guard, they had to react by subjecting the prisoners under their authority. They subjected them to inhuman condition, like stripping them naked, punishing them to carry heavy bags over their heads and making them to press-up. The worst of all was the interuption of their sleep, (Leithead, 2011).
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