In 1971, 24 male college students volunteered for a "psychological study on imprisonment." The men were made to play guards and prisoners in a makeshift prison on Stanford University's campus. After only six days, the study was shut down when the guards became increasingly aggressive and the prisoners started showing signs of extreme depression and anxiety. The details of this experiment are crazy, controversial, and ridiculously fascinating.

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