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Stanford Prison Experiment  

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  • The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) is a highly influential and controversial study run by Philip Zimbardo and his colleagues at Stanford University in 1971. The researchers originally set out to support the notion that situational forces are just as powerful and perhaps more powerful than dispositional forces in influencing prison behavior. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology; Stanford Prison Experiment]

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