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As a real life "Lord of the Flies," there was a degeneration and collapse of the existing rules and morality dictate exactly how people should behave to each other.

This study is so well known that a Hollywood film about the Stanford Prison Experiment in 2009 will be released. The experiment was also the basis for many similar studies over the years, but they have much stricter controls and monitoring procedures in place had.

Background

In 1971, psychologist Philip Zimbardo attempted to show that prison guards and convicts would tend to slip into predefined roles, was in a way that they thought necessary, rather ...