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Sep 30, 2026 5 min

Psychological Experiment or Torture?

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In 1971 one of the most disturbing studies of human behaviour was carried out, known as the Stanford Prison Experiment it aimed to test how much the social pressures of authority shaped individual behaviour. The experiment randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards to university students and as the experiment progressed the guards behaviour got worse and worse, leading to the study being terminated after only six days. Stephen Hill asked Western Sydney University lecturer Noah Cohen to provide an overview of this famous psychological experiment?

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